Tropescilloscope: Anachronic Order

The order in which the story is told is not the order in which its events took place. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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