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