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