Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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