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