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