Tropescilloscope: Anachronism Stew

A work set in a certain time period has elements of other time periods thrown in. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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