Tropescilloscope: Genre Shift

A series changes from one genre to another, either for a short period or forever. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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