Tropescilloscope: The '90s

Set in the 1990s, duuuuude! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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