Tropescilloscope: The '90s

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

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