Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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