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