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