Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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