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