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