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