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