Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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