Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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