Tropescilloscope: 20 Minutes into the Future

The near future is just like The Present Day, but with Applied Phlebotinum, and maybe some big social changes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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