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