Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

A story that takes place in three days or less. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Not So Different Shipper on Deck Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Corrupt Corporate Executive Fate Worse than Death Rule of Three Russian Films Bald of Evil Adapted Out There Is No Kill Like Overkill Body Horror Motor Mouth Ascended Extra Skewed Priorities Offscreen Teleportation Time Skip Wretched Hive More Dakka Insane Troll Logic Serial Killer Show Within a Show Malevolent Masked Men Anachronism Stew May–December Romance Reality Ensues A Father to His Men Woman Scorned Dirty Old Man Belligerent Sexual Tension Eagleland Brutal Honesty A Minor Kidroduction Nothing Is Scarier Protagonist Title Pretty Little Headshots Chekhov's Gun The Chick Bunny-Ears Lawyer Spiritual Successor Big Applesauce Decoy Protagonist Karma Houdini Meaningful Name Real Life Writes the Plot Unresolved Sexual Tension My God, What Have I Done? Brother–Sister Incest Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Dark Is Not Evil Grievous Bottley Harm Intrepid Reporter Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Catapult Nightmare And the Adventure Continues Older Than They Look Children Are Innocent One-Word Title Spanner in the Works Translation Convention Arch-Enemy Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Alcoholic Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Greater-Scope Villain Cluster F-Bomb Red Oni, Blue Oni Adaptational Badass Sole Survivor Stuff Blowing Up Victoria's Secret Compartment The Mole Accidental Misnaming MacGuffin Lighter and Softer Truth in Television Bullying a Dragon Chiaroscuro Reckless Gun Usage Establishing Character Moment Composite Character Made of Iron Epic Fail NO INDOOR VOICE Break the Cutie It's All About Me Only One Name Manic Pixie Dream Girl Scary Black Man Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Guile Hero Christmas Movies Index Large Ham Does This Remind You of Anything? Back from the Dead Not Using the "Z" Word Bait-and-Switch Suspiciously Specific Denial Logo Joke Darker and Edgier The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Law Expy Sir Swears-a-Lot Storming the Castle Fan Disservice The Atoner Mooks Famous Last Words Gilligan Cut Damsel in Distress Retirony Knife Nut Implacable Man Punch-Clock Villain The Ace 20 Minutes into the Future Training Montage Would Hit a Girl Once More, with Clarity! "Shaggy Dog" Story Improvised Weapon The Load Bound and Gagged Insistent Terminology Dissonant Serenity Epic Movie Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Maybe Ever After Corpsing Meaningful Background Event Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Oner Dull Surprise Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Big Damn Heroes The Lost Lenore Needs Wiki Magic Love Tempting Fate Badass in a Nice Suit All Men Are Perverts Beta Couple The Smurfette Principle Horror Comedy Karmic Death Mad Scientist Mistaken for Gay Boom, Headshot! Same Language Dub Early-Bird Cameo Here We Go Again! Say My Name Vomit Discretion Shot Not So Above It All Evil Laugh Stock Footage Ass Shove Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Extreme Doormat It Will Never Catch On Psychological Thriller All There in the Script I Did What I Had to Do Word of God Auto Erotica Slap-Slap-Kiss Beware the Nice Ones Ghost Fiction Reasonable Authority Figure Jerkass Has a Point Creator Cameo Cool Car Vampire Fiction The Lancer Anachronic Order Playing Gertrude Documentary Politically Incorrect Villain Bolivian Army Ending Knight Templar Black Comedy Rape It's Personal Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Australian Movies Alpha Bitch Green-Eyed Monster Parental Incest The Dreaded Offscreen Moment of Awesome Retcon Stealth Pun Screw the Rules, I Have Money! No Celebrities Were Harmed Killed Mid-Sentence Affably Evil Eureka Moment You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bavarian Fire Drill Deadpan Snarker Fiery Redhead Getting Crap Past the Radar Redemption Equals Death Unreliable Narrator Arranged Marriage Fantasy Films Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Well-Intentioned Extremist Took a Level in Badass Bittersweet Ending Evil Sounds Deep Superhero Dramedy Laser-Guided Karma Framing Device Evil Brit Shoot the Shaggy Dog Animal Motifs Action Prologue Captain Obvious Camp Gay Spiteful Spit Dressing as the Enemy It Can Think Madness Mantra Disappeared Dad Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene You Have Failed Me My Beloved Smother Wounded Gazelle Gambit Informed Ability Smug Snake Dogged Nice Guy Despair Event Horizon Moment Killer Dying Moment of Awesome One-Man Army Film Noir Developing Doomed Characters Soundtrack Dissonance Flashback "Well Done, Son!" Guy Fake Shemp Disney Villain Death Hypocritical Humor Kids Are Cruel Gender Flip Military and Warfare Films "Awesome McCool" Name Calling the Old Man Out Wham Shot All Girls Want Bad Boys Badass Boast Amusing Injuries Creepy Child Bloodier and Gorier A Date with Rosie Palms Country Matters The Stinger Artistic License – Geography All There in the Manual Call-Forward Daddy's Girl Sassy Black Woman Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Alas, Poor Villain Pre-Asskicking One-Liner As the Good Book Says... Heroic BSoD Celebrity Paradox Enemy Mine Fourth Date Marriage Abusive Parents The Dragon Running Gag Only in It for the Money Covers Always Lie Romantic Comedy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping In Medias Res Totally Radical Adults Are Useless What Happened to the Mouse? Villain Song Overprotective Dad Product Placement Ambiguous Disorder Death by Adaptation Get Out! Mind Screw Big-Bad Ensemble Death of a Child Evil Is Hammy Properly Paranoid Even Evil Has Loved Ones Meaningful Echo Central Theme Fanservice Crazy Jealous Guy Broken Bird I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Big "NO!" Mythology Gag No Antagonist The Power of Love Fatal Family Photo Driven to Suicide Mexican Standoff Reality Has No Subtitles Author Avatar Sexy Discretion Shot Horror Films Butt-Monkey World of Ham Gratuitous English Disproportionate Retribution Dwindling Party Anti-Villain Hero Antagonist Would Hurt a Child Rule of Funny Card-Carrying Villain Action Genre Naïve Newcomer Overly Long Gag The Ghost Smoking Is Cool Happily Married Manchild Adult Fear Hell Is That Noise Black Dude Dies First Evil Is Petty Not So Stoic Evil-Detecting Dog Aluminum Christmas Trees Instant Death Bullet Title Drop Ungrateful Bastard Anti-Hero Fun with Acronyms Funny Foreigner Defiant to the End Manly Tears Eyepatch of Power Did Not Get the Girl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas What You Are in the Dark Jerk Jock Jitter Cam Science Fiction Films Major Injury Underreaction No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The '70s Video Credits Cat Scare Eye Scream Put on a Bus Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Beard of Evil Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dark Action Girl Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie All Just a Dream Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Captain Ersatz Not Even Bothering with the Accent Ship Tease Curse Cut Short Hollywood Law War Is Hell Pragmatic Villainy Your Cheating Heart Almost Kiss Bad Boss Super Strength Action Survivor Love Triangle Anguished Declaration of Love Chekhov's Skill Men Are the Expendable Gender Cool Guns My Greatest Failure Gory Discretion Shot Stealth Hi/Bye Depraved Bisexual Genre Shift Broken Aesop Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adaptational Attractiveness Noodle Incident Adaptational Villainy Psycho for Hire Small Name, Big Ego Parental Neglect Index of Film Westerns And I Must Scream Drives Like Crazy Better to Die than Be Killed An Axe to Grind The Cameo Babies Ever After The '50s Badass Longcoat Handicapped Badass Villain Ball Fire-Forged Friends Expository Hairstyle Change Four-Temperament Ensemble Let's Get Dangerous! Your Head A-Splode Love at First Sight The Voiceless Male Gaze Laughing Mad The Great Depression Vomit Indiscretion Shot Catch-Phrase Star-Crossed Lovers Batman Gambit Sacrificial Lion Big Eater The Big Guy Action Girl Vacation Films From Bad to Worse Freeze-Frame Bonus Evil Plan The Hero Dies Narrator Black Best Friend Gainax Ending The Mafia Half the Man He Used to Be Nice Guy Blackmail Straight Gay The Alleged Car Monumental Damage Bilingual Bonus For Want of a Nail Bloodless Carnage In the Back Ambiguous Ending Eiffel Tower Effect Rasputinian Death Taking You with Me Broken Pedestal Sealed Evil in a Can Apocalypse How Unspoken Plan Guarantee Re-Cut In Name Only Only a Flesh Wound Call-Back Dies Wide Open No Name Given Cain and Abel You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Canadian Movies Does Not Like Shoes Hooker with a Heart of Gold Made of Explodium Deal with the Devil Hollywood Darkness Asshole Victim Even Evil Has Standards Hypocrite Slasher Movie Heroic Sacrifice The Stoic Dark Reprise Slasher Smile Villain Protagonist Final Girl Antagonist Title Double Entendre Exactly What It Says on the Tin Leitmotif Naked People Are Funny Sequel Hook Match Cut Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Biopic You Killed My Father Face Death with Dignity Gold Digger As You Know Department of Redundancy Department Demoted to Extra French Films Pet the Dog Shell-Shocked Veteran Break the Haughty Plot Hole Based on a True Story Dirty Coward Deus ex Machina Novelization Cruel and Unusual Death Recycled IN SPACE! Artistic License – Physics Outrun the Fireball Bi the Way Drowning My Sorrows Hair-Trigger Temper Shout-Out Scenery Porn Historical Villain Upgrade Non-Indicative Name Obstructive Bureaucrat Deliberate Values Dissonance Kick the Son of a Bitch A.I. Is a Crapshoot Big Bad Duumvirate Humans Are Bastards Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Starscream Thriller Blood from the Mouth Stepford Smiler Pimped-Out Dress Actually Pretty Funny Television Movie Index Lock and Load Montage Obviously Evil Pragmatic Adaptation folderlabel Neck Lift Cool Old Guy The Remake "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Fat Bastard A God Am I Mood Whiplash Downer Ending Revenge No-Sell Tranquil Fury Our Zombies Are Different Very Loosely Based on a True Story Advertised Extra Loophole Abuse Chewing the Scenery Have a Gay Old Time Rule of Cool Villain with Good Publicity Intergenerational Friendship Paper-Thin Disguise No Ending Real Life Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Artistic License – History Hero of Another Story Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Stoner Kubrick Stare Closed Circle Artistic License – Gun Safety Leaning on the Fourth Wall British Films Wrong Genre Savvy Woman in White Never Found the Body Precision F-Strike Worthy Opponent Badass Normal Retired Badass Evil Counterpart Rousing Speech Big Fancy House The Musical Not Quite Dead The Cavalry Guns Akimbo Obfuscating Stupidity Armor-Piercing Question Race Against the Clock Meet Cute Humiliation Conga Kill It with Fire Psychopathic Manchild Wham Line Dark and Troubled Past As Long as It Sounds Foreign Only Sane Man Rewatch Bonus Due to the Dead Brainless Beauty Badass Bookworm Brick Joke Male Frontal Nudity Drill Sergeant Nasty She Cleans Up Nicely Oh, Crap! Cat Fight The Ditz Villainous Breakdown Mundane Made Awesome Cloudcuckoolander Unusually Uninteresting Sight Foil Actor Allusion Pretty in Mink Book-Ends The X of Y Film Noir Index From Nobody to Nightmare Zombie Stories Distracted by the Sexy Sadistic Choice Death Glare Rated M for Manly Sports Stories Ripped from the Headlines Bury Your Gays Five-Man Band Silence Is Golden Heel–Face Turn Police Brutality Whole Plot Reference The Chessmaster Left the Background Music On Immune to Bullets Death Seeker What the Hell, Hero? Grey and Gray Morality Cool Old Lady Darkest Hour Creative Closing Credits Really Gets Around Black and Gray Morality Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Token Minority She's Got Legs Sanity Slippage Early Installment Weirdness Papa Wolf No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Red Herring Toplessness from the Back Wicked Cultured The Film of the Book Ambiguously Gay Defrosting Ice Queen Lampshade Hanging Dumb Blonde Mr. Fanservice Heterosexual Life-Partners Yandere The Vamp Shown Their Work Up to Eleven The '90s The Reveal Public Domain Feature Films Shower Scene Fanservice Extra Double-Meaning Title Beauty Is Never Tarnished Character Development Vitriolic Best Buds Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Brute An Arm and a Leg Slashed Throat Genre Savvy Facial Horror Neck Snap Heel Realization Last-Name Basis Heroes Want Redheads Jump Scare Hong Kong Films Kill 'em All Pre-Mortem One-Liner Pay Evil unto Evil Rape as Drama Scenery Gorn Amoral Attorney Dual Wielding Make It Look Like an Accident The Bad Guy Wins Rich Bitch I Have Your Wife Villain Opening Scene Adorkable Historical In-Joke Determinator Pyrrhic Victory Danny Peary Cult Movies List Costume Porn Punny Name Combat Pragmatist Canon Foreigner Anyone Can Die Mr. Exposition Twist Ending Arc Words Tap on the Head He Who Fights Monsters Plucky Comic Relief Curb-Stomp Battle Awesome, but Impractical Morality Pet "The Reason You Suck" Speech Those Two Bad Guys Henpecked Husband The Hero Interrupted Suicide Accidental Murder Shirtless Scene Abhorrent Admirer Freudian Excuse Chase Scene Award-Bait Song Animal Title Index Bad "Bad Acting" Faking the Dead Be Careful What You Wish For Bloody Hilarious Black Comedy Sequel Escalation Missing Mom Taking the Bullet Spell My Name with an "S" The End... Or Is It? Red Eyes, Take Warning Genre Throwback O.O.C. Is Serious Business Earn Your Happy Ending Music Stories Death by Sex Sci-Fi Horror Artistic License – Military Groin Attack Leave the Camera Running Race Lift The Bully Jerkass Historical-Domain Character Bare Your Midriff Light Is Not Good Deliberately Monochrome Ironic Echo The '80s Everyone Has Standards Affectionate Parody Only Known by Their Nickname Riddle for the Ages Rule of Symbolism As Himself After the End N-Word Privileges Those Two Guys Authority Equals Asskicking Femme Fatale Foregone Conclusion Shut Up, Hannibal! Bar Brawl Crucified Hero Shot Dramatic Irony Casting Gag Bowdlerise Adaptation Expansion No OSHA Compliance I Need a Freaking Drink Market-Based Title Too Dumb to Live Dramatic Gun Cock Comically Missing the Point Take That! Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Married to the Job Setting Update Breaking the Fourth Wall Funny Background Event Hidden Depths One Steve Limit Camera Abuse Suspiciously Similar Substitute Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Room Full of Crazy Gone Horribly Right Film Series Italian Films And Starring Dutch Angle Credits Gag Aside Glance Tagline Silent Movie Self-Deprecation Not What It Looks Like Line-of-Sight Name Alliterative Name Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Smart Guy Our Vampires Are Different Chekhov's Gunman Homage Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Animated Credits Opening Manipulative Bastard Gorn Fatal Flaw The Sociopath Extremely Short Timespan Nice Hat Face–Heel Turn Evil vs. Evil This Is Gonna Suck Stalker with a Crush Frame-Up Serious Business Police are Useless Kick the Dog Betty and Veronica Coming-of-Age Story Good Is Not Nice Ms. Fanservice Cassandra Truth Becoming the Mask Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Age Lift Empathic Environment Works Set in World War II He Knows Too Much Artistic License – Biology Roaring Rampage of Revenge Parental Abandonment Random Events Plot The Un-Reveal Dirty Cop Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bring My Brown Pants The Faceless Undying Loyalty Easily Forgiven Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Loads and Loads of Characters Suddenly SHOUTING! Man on Fire Mystery and Detective Films Bland-Name Product Those Wacky Nazis Soft Glass Martial Arts Movie Irony Big Bad Important Haircut Posthumous Character Cowboy Cop Mama Bear Fainting Demonic Possession B-Movie True Companions Determinator aka: The Determinator Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Place Fingore Diabolus ex Machina Badass Grandpa Off with His Head! Redshirt Army Improbable Aiming Skills Ominous Latin Chanting '80s Hair Faux Affably Evil Mugging the Monster Mercy Kill Hope Spot Red Right Hand For the Evulz Bond One-Liner Annoying Younger Sibling Fantastic Racism The Casanova Conspicuous CG Agony of the Feet Romantic False Lead Trailers Always Spoil Author Appeal Contrived Coincidence Parental Substitute How We Got Here Screw the Money, I Have Rules! La Résistance Spared by the Adaptation Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Domestic Abuse Bond Villain Stupidity Ax-Crazy An Aesop Air-Vent Passageway The Quiet One Attempted Rape Visual Pun Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Dropped a Bridge on Him Adaptational Heroism Car Fu Sinister Minister Never My Fault Japanese Films Scare Chord Every Car Is a Pinto Unusual Euphemism Drugs Are Bad All for Nothing Bottomless Magazines Red Shirt Improbable Weapon User Hoist by His Own Petard Friend to All Children Continuity Nod Berserk Button Together in Death I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Never Trust a Trailer Stylistic Suck Took a Level in Jerkass Refuge in Audacity Mighty Whitey Cold-Blooded Torture Crapsack World Historical Hero Upgrade The '60s Adaptation Name Change Flipping the Bird Reality Is Unrealistic Take a Third Option Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Didn't Think This Through timeperiod BFG Adaptation Dye-Job Deconstruction Insult Backfire I'm a Humanitarian Disguised in Drag Unwitting Instigator of Doom Adaptation Distillation Hate Sink Blood Knight Blatant Lies Crazy-Prepared Poor Communication Kills Foreshadowing Fish out of Water Eldritch Abomination Honor Before Reason Imagine Spot Cool Shades Big Brother Instinct Jerk with a Heart of Gold Idiot Ball Daylight Horror Destination Defenestration Death by Irony Failed a Spot Check Disney Death German Films Exact Words