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