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