Tropescilloscope: Genre Throwback

Bringing back antiquated elements in a particular genre to current works in order to appeal to nostalgia. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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