Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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