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