Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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