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