Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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