Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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