Tropescilloscope: The Remake

An older work gets a newer incarnation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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