Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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