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Media produced in an intentionally old-fashioned style, designed with the intentional appearance of being decades older than is actually the case. The term is a portmanteau of the Latin word "retro," meaning "backwards" or "in the past," and the French word "faux,"note Pronounced in the same way as "foe" meaning "false." Whereas steampunk involves a setting that is faux-retro, this trope is entirely one of how the medium is painted — entirely stylistic, in other words. Film will use vintage cameras and faded colors, audio will be worn down and scratchy, and video games will look at home in the arcades of old. Some works go out of their way to open with vanity plates pulled directly from the era that they depict (see Logo Joke for that). Retraux may involve Deliberately Monochrome, Deliberate VHS Quality, Antiquated Linguistics or Silence Is Golden, and can also lead to a Decade-Themed Filter in case on invoking 20th century period films. If it's a supposedly past speculation about The Future or 20 Minutes into the Future (i.e., the present), it will inevitably invoke Zeerust or Raygun Gothic. The presentation's outdated nature often overlaps with Stylistic Suck. Genres such as Analog Horror and Digital Horror use this to unsettle and terrify by combining nostalgia with a sense of wrongness. In video games, retraux is common in freeware and indie projects for practical reasons — pixelated sprites, low-polygon models, and chiptunes are a lot simpler to make than quality 3D assets, high-resolution 2D art, and orchestral studio recordings. Another emerging artform is the Video Game Demake, in which a game is adapted for an earlier-generation platform (or an emulation of such). Compare Genre Throwback, where a production is made evoking old-style works but with modern production values (in contrast, something that's Retraux can be mistaken for an actual old-style production). Can overlap with Newer Than They Think when done especially well. See also Retraux Flashback when this is combined with an Art Shift in an otherwise more modern looking work. |
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Married to the Sea, from the people who do Toothpaste For Dinner and Natalie Dee, follows the same formula as Wondermark, except in single-panel format. | |
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And Pretty Little Liars (Season 4, "Shadow Play"). | |
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Narbonic did one of these, The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon & Co., interspersed with the main comic. Narbonic also had the Dave in Slumberland strips once a year, which were drawn in the style of Little Nemo, and provided immense foreshadowing. |
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In episode 35, a Clip Show, Yami asks Kaiba if he remembers the time the two of them first met, which is shown as 'a time when the video quality wasn't very good, and the audio was all muffled and scratchy'. Clips from the first episode are used in black and white, with a fake moustache and monicle painted onto Kaiba, and a 'silent movie' motif with old-style dialogue printed on the screen and an upbeat piano theme. This is lampshaded by Kaiba moments later when he says he doesn't remember growing a moustache. | |
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At a time when shooting movies on film had fallen out of favor in Hollywood outside of the indie scene, Pokémon Detective Pikachu stood out for being shot on film in order to reflect its Film Noir style, rather than digitally as commonly done now. According to Justice Smith, this was done to pit the Pokémon franchise against an urban backdrop. Also applies to parts of the video segment introducing Howard Clifford with news footage of him in the 1990s, with the video quality and aspect ratio being made to resemble footage from that time; and Howard having '90s Hair to contrast his hairstyle in the present day. | |
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Down with Love is an Affectionate Parody of a certain subgenre of early-1960s romantic comedies, filmed with more than a few retraux touches. It's particularly noticeable in the set design and background music. | |
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Look Around You mimics 1980s educational TV despite being made in 2002 (for the first series) and 2005 (for the second). | |
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2011 French romantic comedy The Artist is shot in the old 4:3 Aspect Ratio, is Deliberately Monochrome, and is a silent film. | |
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Dark and Stormy Night goes back to the '30s to parody the Old, Dark House genre. | |
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Rocketship Voyager retells the early episodes of Star Trek: Voyager in the style of a 50s pulp science-fiction story, complete with ethnic slurs and sexism, retro rockets, Failed Future Forecasts and Everybody Smokes. | |
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The Scarlet Letter was written in the 19th century, but it's often taught in high schools as an example of 17th-century writing. | |
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I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space!!! has been run through Photoshop filters because the author/artist wants it to feel like "your parents’ old collection that they forget they left up there, all faded and stained." | |
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MS Paint Adventures are done in the style of text-based adventures. | |
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Chuck: "Chuck vs. the Role Models" has a Cold Open of a '70s/'80s style Special Edition Title (mostly a parody of Hart to Hart's credit sequence.) | |
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Gekiganger 3, a Show Within a Show in Martian Successor Nadesico, more so in the actual show than in the defictionalized OVA. Interestingly enough, according to Word of God, despite its 1970s-esque appearance, it was actually made in the 2090s (about 100 years before Nadesico takes place), which means it's an example of this even in-story. | |
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The Simpsons "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" shows several vintage Itchy & Scratchy cartoons: Scratchy's 1928 debut in "That Happy Cat", "Steamboat Itchy" from the next year, and a 1940s Wartime Cartoon where the two (temporarily) put aside their differences to beat up Adolf Hitler. "Bart of Darkness" shows a black and white 1961 episode of The Krusty the Clown Show. Krusty interviews George Meany on America's labor crisis. "The Day the Violence Died" shows the first appearance of Itchy, in the black and white 1919 short Itchy the Lucky Mouse. In "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpialad'ohcious", the black and white cartoon playing in Homer's head is based on Steamboat Willie. In "How I Wet Your Mother", Bart Simpson's dream is animated in the same style as the Simpsons shorts from The Tracey Ullman Show of the late 80s. In "All About Lisa", The Krustketeers sing the Krusty Klub Theme, shown in black and white. In "Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles", The "La-Z Rider Couch Gag" is a throwback to a more serious 80's animation style, with an overlay effect representing visible tracking lines from the worn and dirty video heads of a VHS player. |
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The Rap Critic's review of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message" is done in the style of an early-80's public access TV show, with the Critic going by the name of "The Hip-Hop Analyst." | |
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Fringe, for an episode set entirely in The '80s, used an 80s-style opening Special Edition Title. Hilariously, they replace the normal flashes of futuristic fringe sciences (teleportation, dark matter, etc) with things that were futuristic at the time (cold fusion, in vitro fertilization, personal computing) but have either become commonplace or totally debunked. Compare to the usual opening. | |
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To promote Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix made a recap of the preceding games Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2 in the style of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Final Fantasy games. | |
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WandaVision: The first couple of episodes are (mostly) black-and-white and use primitive special effects (objects on wires, jump cuts) to evoke the feel of 1950s-1960s sitcoms. | |
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Hustle: In "Whittaker Our Way Out", an exposition scene explaining how an old-style con worked was done in the form of a black-and-white silent movie. | |
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The Ultimate figures for NECA's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) line each come in a vertical rectangular box that imitates the original cartoon's VHS releases, from the art style, to the text fonts, and even the company logos. | |
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Lacey Games A Disguised Horror Story series which draw heavy influence from mid-2000s girl-oriented flash games, including the art style and typical gameplay. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph pays homage to vintage video-game styles with its protagonist being the villain in an 8-bit style game modeled after Donkey Kong. The closing credits play with this further, notably when Ralph and Vanellope help demolish the car in the Street Fighter II bonus level. The end also invokes this trope, after the "Wreck-it Ralph" game becomes more popular than ever with the inclusion of a "Q-Bert" bonus round. | |
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Additionally, one episode featured clips of the Warners guest-starring on such old cartoons as Calhoon Capybara, Oohooroo, Where Are You, and Obese Orson. For the clips, the producers carefully made sure the animators replicated the low-budget feel of the cartoons parodied. | |
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The Drowsy Chaperone was written as a parody of 1920s-era musicals such as Anything Goes. Without the Man in the Chair present, it could easily be mistaken for one, but then again, it's his commentary that makes the show so funny — otherwise it's just another over-the-top musical. | |
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Lovecraft Country opens with Atticus dreaming of his wartime experiences, but in the form of a monochrome 1950's war movie. Things turn weird when it changes to a color flying saucer invasion movie instead. | |
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Wondermark is made to look like it was made in the early 1900s, and was: the author takes old-style printings and adds dialog. Married to the Sea, from the people who do Toothpaste For Dinner and Natalie Dee, follows the same formula as Wondermark, except in single-panel format. |
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Mazes and Minotaurs is a What If? on Dungeons & Dragons if Gygax and Arneson used Greek mythology instead of medieval fantasy and it's also a playable game. | |
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Mad Men on AMC is supposed to be set in the early 60s, and is filmed with a dark, slightly fuzzy/grainy look to it. This is in keeping with the show's obsessive focus on setting — the furniture is all vintage, along with the clothing. Even to the point of making the actors wear authentic undergarments that are never seen. | |
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Wonders Of The World Wide Web is all about the aesthetics and outdated technology of the 80's and 90's. It presents modern-day apps, websites, and video games as if they were programs from those previous decades, complete with retro-style graphics and sounds. The videos themselves use a graphic style reminiscient of the 80's, and they even have a VHS filter applied. | |
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Grease, first written in 1971, is one of the first things people think of when they think of the 50s. | |
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The entire presentation of the National Wrestling Alliance since it was taken over by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has been in the style of 80s NWA studio-based wrestling shows, complete with near-perfect recreations of 80s vintage sets, lighting, and camera angles. Some fans love it for its authenticity to the period, others see it as painful nostalgia for a style best left to the past. | |
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Black Dynamite is a movie from the late 2000s that's made to look like the cheaply made blaxploitation films of the '70s, with grainy quality, obviously bad effects, and choppy editing. | |
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Batman: Black and White: In "The Heist", all the shading is done with old-timey screentone dots. "Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder" by John Byrne is drawn in the style of a Golden Age Batman comic and is written accordingly as well. Batman and Robin smile throughout the story, deliver wisecracks and best the villains via a clever scheme. "Urban Renewal" features some nostalgic flashbacks by characters to the "old days", and the flashbacks are drawn in the Golden Age style as opposed to the more realistic present-day scenes. |
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Wonder Woman Vol 2 #200 has two back up stories in the style of Golden Age and Silver Age comics. The Golden Age one in particular is a very close parody, with the Holiday Girls, the Kangas, a robot duplicate and spanking ... except that the villain is a version of the Greg Rucka-created Veronica Cale. | |
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Following the success of their re-releases of classic Doctor Who Novelisations, with original trade dress etc, BBC Books published several new novelisations in 2018 (Rose, The Christmas Invasion, The Day of the Doctor and Twice Upon a Time, plus a repackaging of City of Death; one of James Goss's novelisations of Douglas Adams Fourth Doctor stories, which had been published in a completely different format). These replicate the appearance of the 1970s books, complete with Target insignia, Pertwee logo, and Anthony Dry doing his best Chris Achilleos impression for the cover illustrations. The only clues that they aren't well preserved books from the period (apart from, you know, the actual contents) are the BBC Books insignia on the spine, the fact the logo is foil, and that the original "Changing Face of Doctor Who" notes (explaining to kids for whom the TV Doctor had always been Tom Baker who these other guys were) weren't so tongue-in-cheek. (The one for City of Death, for example, not only notes that the Fourth Doctor changed his face when he "lost an argument with gravity", but is followed by a "Changing Face of Scaroth" note.) They followed this up in 2021 with Dalek, The Crimson Horror, The Witchfinders and repackagings of Goss's The Pirate Planet, Eric Saward's Dalek stories (Resurrection and Revelation) and Gary Russell's novelisation of the McGann TVM. The Witchfinders is the odd one out, maintaining most of the trade dress, but with the Wittaker logo. The 2023 releases use the 60th anniversary version of the diamond logo, but without the diamond, in the same way as the classic diamond logo without the diamons was used for much of the Tom Baker years. | |
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Doctor Who Magazine: The 50th aniversary issue included an insert which imagined what DWM would have looked like in 1964, celebrating a whole year of Doctor Who (DWM actually started in 1979). Highlights included "Galactic Guardian" (because it couldn't have been called Gallifrey Guardian before 1973) and a review of the first Novelization, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, which was incandescent about the fact They Changed It, Now It Sucks! — while being somewhat vague as to what had actually happened in the TV story, because it was a year ago and there wasn't any way of seeing it again. While they didn't do the whole magazine like this, #550, looking at the season that included the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "Talons of Weng-Chiang", had a cover resembling an 1880s edition of The Strand. The comic strip has also occasionally gone retro. "Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game" has the Doctor investigating alien involvement in a 1970s football club. The Monochrome Past flashback is actually duotone, making the strip look like a contemporary issue of Roy of the Rovers. Part Nine of "Liberation of the Daleks" has an opening page in the style of Terry Nation's sixties Dalek comic strips. |
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In mid-November 2020, All Elite Wrestling ran a promo online for their latest episode of Dynamite. Said promo included a backdrop reminiscent of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and featured Tony Shiavone interviewing Cody Rhodes. | |
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The Rabbit Games animations are stylized to reflect Flash games of the 2010s, complete with low quality upbeat instrumental music. | |
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The Orson Randall one shot issues of Immortal Iron Fist are often drawn in the style of pulp era artists. | |
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Catch Me If You Can a movie set mostly in the 1960s has a Saul Bass style animated opening credit sequence. | |
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In fitting with the Animaniacs backstory as characters locked away since the early days of animation, occasionally a "lost Warner Bros. short" was aired that was done deliberately in the style of WB's original Bosko and Honey cartoons. Additionally, one episode featured clips of the Warners guest-starring on such old cartoons as Calhoon Capybara, Oohooroo, Where Are You, and Obese Orson. For the clips, the producers carefully made sure the animators replicated the low-budget feel of the cartoons parodied. |
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Christopher Fry's 1948 play The Lady's Not for Burning is written in the style of a Shakespearean comedy. | |
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The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show and the 2018 Rocky and Bullwinkle Amazon series, in spite of both having very modern animation (as opposed to the originals' Limited Animation), have art styles that evoke 1950's and 1960's animation. | |
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And Supernatural (season 4's "Monster Movie"). | |
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Cowboy Bebop intentionally uses a drawing style and character design reminiscent of anime from the 1970s, despite being made in 1998. One DVD release for the show also has the DVDs looking like LPs; the DVD covers emulated packaging for jazz albums of the 1950s with a single dominant color on the front and a text-heavy back cover. So do the LaserDisc releases. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion as a black-and white 1930s cartoon. | |
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They Cloned Tyrone: The film has an intentionally grainier look, complete with “cigarette burns� to give it the feel of being played on an old film reel. | |
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist used old footage from an actual Hong Kong martial arts flick that was worn, so most of the new parts edited into the movie were artificially worn to match the rest of the film. | |
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Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? applies a similar approach to the direct-to-DVD films mentioned above, while otherwise being a modern take on the The New Scooby-Doo Movies with a half-hour format. | |
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The 2013 Mickey Mouse shorts are done in the style of the 1930's shorts, as seen in the first short Croissant de Triomphe. The 2013 Mickey Mouse short Get a Horse! (playing before Frozen in theatres) was painstakingly created to look and sound like a late 1920s/early 1930s cartoon, including film scratches, cel mistakes, and poor quality soundtrack - even going as far to include archived clips of Walt Disney as Mickey's voice. That is, before the cinema screen is ripped open, hand-drawn and CG animation come together and the fourth wall is not so much broken as it is shattered into a billion pieces. |
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The Jet Dream comics (and sister titles It's Cookie! and My Jet Dream Romance) are presented as if they were actual comic books published in the late '60s and early '70s by an obscure publisher obsessed with male-to-female sex changes. Evidence in Jet Dream letter columns and other material suggests that the publisher believed in mass-scale wholesome crossdressing by boys to prepare for humanity's future as a One-Gender Race. The wholesome, hoped-to-be Code approved Jet Dream comics were only one of his business ventures aimed at cashing in on a "Fem Is In!" movement that... never quite developed. |
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In Sequinox, partway through the battle with Sargas, Vivaldi starts playing a classical violin cover of "Woman" by Kesha to power up the magical girls. | |
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Yo Gabba Gabba! has an 8-bit sounding opening, prominently features chiptunes during scene changes, and occasionally features episode filler scenes that pays homage to 80s video games, complete with blocky graphics. | |
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The 2013 Mickey Mouse short Get a Horse! (playing before Frozen in theatres) was painstakingly created to look and sound like a late 1920s/early 1930s cartoon, including film scratches, cel mistakes, and poor quality soundtrack - even going as far to include archived clips of Walt Disney as Mickey's voice. That is, before the cinema screen is ripped open, hand-drawn and CG animation come together and the fourth wall is not so much broken as it is shattered into a billion pieces. | |
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Iron Man 2 features the song "Make Way For Tomorrow Today" over the end credits, performed by the Stark Expo Singers. The theme song for Stark Expo '74, it sounds a lot like various songs from Disney movies and theme parks, most notably "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow", the theme to the Carousel of Progress attraction. This is no accident. The Stark Expo theme was written by Richard Sherman, who wrote that and many other memorable songs as a Disney employee. An expanded version of the song also appears in Captain America: The First Avenger (composed by Alan Silvestri instead of John Debney). | |
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Everything in X-Men: First Class, has very '60s/'70s sensibilities, from Emma Frost's Bond Girl costumes to the BBC science documentary-like credits sequence. | |
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The Mexican (2001) had the flashbacks filmed in a hand-cranked camera to evoke this trope. | |
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The 2003 remake of The Music Man uses acting and dialogue styles from the mid-20th century, as well as a slight sepia tint, soft focus on certain shots, and somewhat degraded audio. One scene in a bar even has people drinking just water and milk. The only signs that it was made in the 21st century are the higher visual quality, the extensive racial integration of the town (and of some romances in the background), and one scene in which the mayor writes with his left hand, which would've been incredibly unlikely when the movie is set. | |
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The Deadly Tower of Monsters takes the form of a B-Movie from the 1970's, with all the tropes that entails. | |
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The Manor's Prize: It is drawn in grayscale to emulate the look of black-and-white movies. Although it has the aesthetic of an old noir or murder mystery, the plot is a game-show style elimination game. | |
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In the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!", the team up with Scooby-Doo is done in the style of Batman's appearances in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and the story based on the manga series is done as a badly dubbed eighties anime. | |
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Tiffany and Corey is a webcomic but the hand drawn pen style resembles newspaper comic strips and, to a lesser extent, magazine gag cartoons. | |
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A Spitting Image sketch claimed to be celebrating the show's 100th anniversary, and showed a clip from the supposed first show in the 1880s. This was a black and white scene of two Punch and Judy style puppets, and silent movie captions reading "I say, Mr Gladstone! You're not very good!" | |
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The "Maroon Cartoon" opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit is made to look like an animated theatrical short from the 1940s, when the movie is set. | |
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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: The box art for the 2022 complete series release by Discotek is designed to look like a Sega Genesis game case. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): "Once Upon a Time" guest starred Buster Keaton as Woodrow Mulligan, a man who travels forward in time from 1890 to 1962. The parts set in 1890 are filmed in the style of an old Silent Movie. Given Keaton's involvement, this is also an Actor Allusion. | |
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Each episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars starts with a WWII-style newsreel either setting the scene or recapping the events of last week's episode, complete with film grain effect and boisterous narrator (who is actually a character in the series, but the two don't seem to have any relationship besides having the same voice). | |
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One of the more unnerving "photos" of Slender Man is designed◊ to look like it was taken in the early Nineties. Details of note include a date watermark and added graininess, the latter of which is more pronounced due to the camera distortions that always pop up when Slendy is around. | |
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Unicorn Jelly looks like something drawn in a 16-bit MS-DOS paint program, and with good reason: it was drawn in a 16-bit MS-DOS paint program. | |
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The Peanuts Movie is computer animated, but its design is reminiscent of the classic Peanuts TV specials. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Thor: Ragnarok are both done in a style evocative of pulp ’60s to ’80s Science Fiction and the works of creators like Jack Kirby and Walt Simonson. Used Future aesthetics, synthesizer-heavy soundtracks, bright and colorful scenery, aliens that look like people with funny skin colors, and many references to ’80s pop culture. | |
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The back cover of the first The Order of the Stick prequel book describes the deliberate choice of greyscale as "Past-O-Vision". The use of crayons to illustrate the "dawn of time" backstories also invokes this trope. | |
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2014 Polish film Ida is shot Deliberately Monochrome and in the 4:3 Aspect Ratio. The director has said that this was a deliberate effort to evoke the Polish films of his youth in The '60s. | |
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Ida | hasFeature |
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The interactive Netflix series Cat Burglar is animated in the style of a Tex Avery cartoon and has film grain and cel scratches. | |
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Hobo With a Shotgun is made to look like it was made in the early '80s, complete with Technicolor, music, and film grain. | |
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WWE decided to do an "old school" night on Raw in November of 2010. They threw up a classic looking WWF set and ramp, swapped out the barriers with old-fashioned rails, and even used a retro-styled WWE logo (though this has actually appeared on a few John Cena promotional items in the past). They even had Michael Cole dress up as an old-school Vince McMahon, since Vince was on commentary duty during the era the show was representing. | |
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GaoGaiGar has an art style rather reminiscent of giant robot anime from the 1970s. | |
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Looney Tunes Cartoons is designed to imitate the style of the early-to-mid 1940s Looney Tunes shorts (especially the ones directed by Bob Clampett) as closely as possible. | |
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The games of Sine Nomine Publishing are descended from the Labyrinth Lord rules, though several mechanical subsystems (particularly the Heroic mechanics first seen in Scarlet Heroes and refined by Godbound and Stars Without Number Second Edition) do their own thing but are designed to interface with existing OD&D mechanics. Kevin Crawford explains that this cross-compatibility is to make the Game Master's job easier by letting anyone grab published modules from any other retroclone, refluff them to fit whichever Sine Nomine setting you're using, and voila, instant adventure. | |
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Southpaw Regional Wrestling, a series of videos about a renegade promotion called Southpaw Regional Wrestling created by the WWE and staring various Superstars and announcers, and is an Affectionate Parody of 80's wrestling | |
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Alias by Brian Michael Bendis features a flashback to Jessica Jones attending the same school as Spider-Man, drawn in a style reminiscent of Steve Ditko era Spider-Man. Jessica's early superhero days as Jewel get '80s-like artwork in addition to old school credits ("Bashful Brian Bendis", "Magnificent Mike Gaydos", "Marvelous Mark Bagley"). | |
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Several parts in C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America are made to look like older films, including an old, silent movie. | |
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Corgi Quest uses a simplistic pixelated art style reminiscent of retro video games. | |
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Heil Honey I'm Home! is presented in 1950s sitcom style, despite being filmed in 1990. | |
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In commemoration to Geocities shutting down... Behold! xkcd redesigned as a classic 90s Geocities site! Complete with broken html, pointless marquees, and flashing background graphics. | |
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The New Adventures of Captain S, a series made by PBC Productions about a gamer who can physically enter Sega games, is supposed to look like it was made in the early 1990s. It takes inspiration from Captain N: The Game Master, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad and Saved by the Bell. The credits use the same font that was used in Full House and the DVD cover◊ is made to resemble the DVD cover of Breakfast Club.◊ | |
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An unintentional example, Rui Araizumi has not significantly changed his art style since the 90s, so newer Slayers media has a very distinctly retro look that's consistent with the older entries in the franchise. | |
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Another flashback example, 2000 AD Prog 2010 features a Judge Dredd story that starts on Christmas Eve 2098 (the first published Judge Dredd story takes place in 2099), which is presented in the style of an early 2000AD strip complete with black and white art and yellowing pages. The second half of the story takes place in the "present day" of Christmas Eve 2131, and switches over to a modern style colour strip. | |
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The House of the Devil is an homage to 1970s horror films, from the setting to the credits to the music. It's even being released on VHS. | |
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Turbo Kid is a very deliberate (and splat-stick laden) 1980s-style homage to Mad Max and BMX Bandits, as well as early Direct to Video imitations of them. There's even a scene where VHS tapes are used as firewood. | |
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a fantasy tale written as a Jane Austen pastiche, right down to using obsolete spellings of common words. | |
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A Fox in Space is made to look like it was created in the 1970's and transferred from an old, decaying film reel: the art style is rough, mimicking the look of xerography, the visuals are intentionally oversaturated as if the film dyes are fading, specks and strands of dust occasionally flicker on-screen, and the audio is crackly and cuts off high frequencies to sound like it was taken from a degraded optical audio track. | |
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Commercials for Dr. Pepper 10 include a mountain man character shot with blurry film stock and outdated music meant to evoke the old Grizzly Adams television show and similar nature-themed shows of the era. | |
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It's not unknown for a flashback or "never before told" story to be drawn in the style of a certain time period. An excellent example is Age of the Sentry miniseries, whose titular hero was supposedly Marvel's Superman Expy in the 1960s, but was forgotten by all of humanity until his "return" in 2000. The flashback scenes are drawn to resemble 1960s Jack Kirby and 1980s Frank Miller. The front cover even has a fake "Approved by the Cosmic Code Authority" logo. | |
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The The Transformers: Robots in Disguise 2012 Annual issue has flashback segments of Nova Prime and his inner circle done up in the style of the old 80s Marvel Transformers comics, including pages that have been made to look yellow with age, and glorious, page-long infodumps where each character takes the time to explain who they are in great detail just as characters being introduced in the old comics had a tendency to do (to encourage their readers to go buy their toys. | |
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Iron Man and Doctor Doom once travelled back in time to a New York City circa the Silver Age (thirty years earlier in real time, perhaps ten or twelve in terms of Earth-616 chronology) in Brian Michael Bendis' run on Mighty Avengers. The art was drawn and colored to resemble the comic book art of that period. | |
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#120 of Vortex, the Big Finish Doctor Who magazine, was advertising the adaptations of the Fourth Doctor comic strips, and had a cover in the style of 70s DWM. | |
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Goodman Games used the slogan "Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel" for their Dungeons & Dragons 3E products. They intentionally copied the style of D&D 1E to appeal to fans of that game who never converted to 2E or 3E. Necromancer Games has a similar design philosophy. Their best-known Sourcebook, Tome of Horrors, consists largely of 1E monsters that Wizards of the Coast wasn't using and let them publish. Complete with high-contrast pen-and-ink black and white illustrations. Robert Kuntz also used the same trade dress for his retro modules as well — of course, he was one of the old hands at TSR at the time this style was originally being used for Dungeons and Dragons. In fact, use of the old D&D style seems to be taking off for publishers who want to give their modules an old-school feel. Either that, or it's an extreme case of Follow the Leader. |
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X-Men Film Series Everything in X-Men: First Class, has very '60s/'70s sensibilities, from Emma Frost's Bond Girl costumes to the BBC science documentary-like credits sequence. In X-Men: Days of Future Past, the 1973 Sentinels are clearly based on their Silver Age comic inspirations. In sharp contrast, however, the 2023 Sentinels look more alien than robot. |
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Smallville has a Film Noir episode framed as Jimmy Olsen's dream sequence. So did Lois & Clark. And Supernatural (season 4's "Monster Movie"). And Pretty Little Liars (Season 4, "Shadow Play"). |
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Neopets has numerous examples of different kinds: The Flash Game "Assignment 53" is done in a pixel art style, which is also available on the main site when painting a pet and is referred to as "8-Bit". Despite the terminology, however, the sprites of both the game and 8-Bit pets are closer to something from The 16 Bit Era Of Console Video Games. "Techo Says" is an Updated Re-release of the first Flash game on the site to celebrate reaching the one thousandth Flash game, but isn't very updated visually, still using the graphical style from 1999. While there are many items on the site with artwork remnant from the early days without being updated, the Unconverted Apple item uses the art style of those items on purpose. The item name of the above refers to "unconverted pets", which are pets that existed during the 2007 overhaul and kept their old art style at the cost of not being customizable. They themselves are an example; while it's easy to assume that the images depicting them were directly copied from the original site, looking closer at one reveals that they're instead a vector image created in order to work with the new pet format instead of raster drawings like the art originally was. This is also most likely why unconverted pets no longer have the dynamic emotion poses that they used to, instead staying static, as new tracings would have to be created for each pose. Regardless, they're regularly treated as the Olympus Mons of Neopets by the fan base due to their ever-increasing scarcity, with an extensive subculture focused on trading towards specific species and colors. There are two wearable backgrounds to mimic the site as it was before the overhaul, those being the Neopets Circle Background and the Photo Of Me Background. The former mimics the backing circle used on pet listings, and the latter mimics the photo images◊ of the given pet and color that appeared on petpages by default. They're both a loyalty bonus only available to purchase on accounts that have been active for four years or longer. |
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Loony Labyrinth switches its modern sound effects and music for simpler sounds and chimes when the player travels to 2,000 B.C. | |
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Danger 5 deliberately looks like a low-budget 60s action flick. An action comedy about a team, Danger 5, fighting Stupid Jetpack Hitler in a 60s Alternate History, it also includes Retraux Toku action, in which Hitler gains command of mechanically enhanced Japanese supersoldiers. Season 2 upgrades to The '80s, with associated look. | |
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The picture that Bruce delivers to Diana in Wonder Woman (2017), that features her, Steve, Samir, Charlie, and the Chief, was actually shot on a camera from that time period, and developed on a glass plate. This was done because simply modifying a modern digital photo would look fake. | |
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White Rabbit Project: Several of the older legends are re-enacted in black and white with an old film effect filter in place. "The Granddad Gang" legend has one scene done with "8-bit animation" (sprite animation). | |
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In Lucky Star, Meito Anizawa and the other Animate store employees are drawn in a style reminiscent of anime (especially Super Robot anime) that's some decades older than Lucky Star. There's even a visual effect that makes their shaded areas be of non-uniform color tone and change their color tone slightly over time, simulating the look of cel animation. That's because the Animate employees were around long before the Lucky Star manga was even created, plus they were designed by G Gundam character designer, Kazuhiko Shimamoto. | |
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Special mention must be given to the Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", which features time travel back to the era of TOS. In addition to inserting Deep Space Nine actors into existing footage, new scenes aboard the old Enterprise and the space station were filmed using 1960s-style lighting — they even used 1960s film stock because the colour saturation properties were different. | |
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One of the DVD bonus features is an "authorized adaptation" of a Mr. Incredible adventure, in the form of a cheaply animated and simple-minded old kiddie cartoon with considerable "aged recording" noise, very similar to Clutch Cargo. (The cartoon can also be viewed with Mr. Incredible and Frozone chiming in their comments, MST3K-style.) | |
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The Mater's Tall Tales short "Time Travel Mater", has various old-time to represent the different periods where Mater and Lightning travel to. The film is sepia-toned when Mater meets Stanley, black-and-white when they go to when Stanley met Lizzie and then to two-strip Technicolor when they see Stanley and Lizzie get married. | |
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In X-Men: Days of Future Past, the 1973 Sentinels are clearly based on their Silver Age comic inspirations. In sharp contrast, however, the 2023 Sentinels look more alien than robot. | |
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In a similar vein, a retro version of the original Steven Universe opening with ragtime music. | |
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Go For It, Nakamura! is a manga from The New '10s, but its artstyle and character design is much more reminiscent of manga from the 80s, and the mangaka actually has her art style marketed as "Neo-80s". | |
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Batman #600 has three "lost inventory stories" that aren't: a Golden Age time-travel tale in the style of Finger and Sprang; a late Silver Age Batgirl and Robin story in the style of Carmine Infantino; and a groovy seventies parody that could have appeared in Plop! or MAD, which is actually by Sergio Aragonés. | |
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The anime adaptation of Monogatari Second Season features the Kogarashi Sentiment OP, part of which is drawn in the style of 90s shows and juxtaposed with a more modern style. Bonus points: it features a tacky duet by Senjougahara and Kaiki, the latter of whom is terribly out of tune. | |
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Mega Man (Ruby-Spears): The 2014 complete series release by Discotek is modeled after the American NES box art and even features authentic wear and tear. The disks themselves look like NES carts and the menus are done in a 8bit style and are based on the title screen of Mega Man 2. | |
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New Mutants (2019) has the cover art styled after the '80s, clearly inspired by the style of Bill Sienkiewicz's covers from over thirty-five years ago. The logo is updated, but rather than modernizing it, looks even more '80s than the original. | |
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Evaporate is made to resemble internet videos from 1998-2007. | |
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Downplayed. The Flintstones scene in the trailer shows Fred and other non-background elements have fake shadows underneath them, emulating the cel animation used in the original show, though otherwise it is not that far off from the "regular" style. | |
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The Goodies. In "Kung Fu Capers", the scene where Bill Oddie's Ecky Thump school is marching on London to take over the country is filmed in the style of a 1930's Communist propaganda film. | |
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Like the Chrono Crusade example below, the American trailer intentionally invokes film from this era by being Deliberately Monochrome, using a "news reel" style narration and backed up by a tinny piano score similar to what a silent film would have. | |
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YouTube parody video maker ChiefBrodyRules has made retraux VHS-style trailers for Frozen, Captain America: The First Avenger and its sequel. View them all here, here, and here. | |
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Krypto the Superdog is intentionally produced in the style of a Hanna-Barbera series of the 60s or early 70s. They even got longtime H-B designer Iwao Takamoto to do character designs! | |
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Spider-Man stuck with its ‘60s art style all the way to its ending in 2019, probably helped by the fact that the creative team consisted mainly of Silver Age figures like Stan Lee himself (who worked on the strip longer than he worked on the actual comic books), Larry Leiber (Stan’s brother), and Joe Sinnott. This applied to the writing as well, with the strip staying dumber, wackier, and overall more fun than the comic books which had long since shifted into Darker and Edgier territory. You could show them to someone and say you found them in your grandfather’s attic and nobody would know the difference. | |
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Star Trek loves to use the holodeck for this kind of thing. Jean-Luc Picard's noir adventures as detective Dixon Hill were a fan favourite (and won the show an Emmy for costume design), as were Tom Paris's Buck Rogers-style Captain Proton stories, which were actually filmed in black and white; and Deep Space Nine's forays into fictional nightclub crooner Vic Fontaine's club. Special mention must be given to the Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", which features time travel back to the era of TOS. In addition to inserting Deep Space Nine actors into existing footage, new scenes aboard the old Enterprise and the space station were filmed using 1960s-style lighting — they even used 1960s film stock because the colour saturation properties were different. |
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The Toy Story TV special Toy Story That Time Forgot, revolving around a group of action figures known as the "Battlesaurs", was accompanied by a fake commercial for them done in the style of an early/mid-2000's action figure commercial, particularly capturing the feel of the anime boom that the United States was experiencing at the time — right down to Studio TRIGGER doing the animation for the commercial. | |
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The box art for the Double Dragon (1993) Blu Ray from Discotek is done in the style of the NES game, complete with the Eastern Star Logo replicating the old Trade West logo on the front. | |
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The first episode of Sublo and Tangy Mustard starts with a 20-year old commercial for Subpar recorded on a VHS tape, complete with fake scan lines, semi-blurry image quality, and muffled sound. | |
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Bugbo uses the art style of early Adobe Flash animations from The Noughties. Each episode even shows a cursor clicking a Play button on a title screen, much like the title screens of old Newgrounds videos. | |
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The Onion published a book called Our Dumb Century in 1999, featuring fake front pages of the paper from throughout the 20th century. | |
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House of the Wolf Man emulates the style of Universal Horror Monster Mash films from the forties. | |
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Many of the Gundam works set in the Universal Century deliberately try to maintain an consistent art style reminiscent of the 1980s, right down to the '80s Hair. If you look closely, you'd notice that the characters of Gundam Unicorn wouldn't look out of place in Zeta Gundam. There's also this poster◊ for last episode of the Unicorn OVA, which calls to mind both old Star Wars art from The '80s and a similar poster for Zeta Gundam. |
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The 2018 movie for Dragon Ball Super, animation wise, resembles an HD version of the Saiyan Saga — a style which just so happens to be easier to animate, thanks to being less detail-focused. | |
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Glee's Show Within a Show during the third season's Christmas Episode was deliberately filmed in black and white, and invoked the feel of holiday variety shows from the 50s to the 70s, albeit with a little tongue-in-cheek humor about the whole thing. | |
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Fired on Mars: Smartphones and computers have an interface modeled after Apple Macintosh operating systems of the 1990s. | |
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Red vs. Blue does this when Church is sent back in time. They use an earlier Bungie game, Marathon, in place of the more modern Halo engine for all the footage in that time period. Also, there's the dramatic lens flare that show up in CGI episodes in Season 9. | |
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A Stormwatch issue concentrating on the history of century-old Jenny Sparks depicts her in each decade as she would have appeared in the comics of the time, with the '80s flashback in particular being a clear homage to Watchmen. | |
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The Holdovers, set in December 1970, is done up to actually look like a film from that era, from the opening logos to the transitions between scenes. | |
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The 2004 version of Tetsujin 28 deliberately captures the aesthetics and atmosphere of 1950s Japan, right down to the soundtrack. | |
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Nebula-75 is a Supermarionation Series, initially made during the COVID-19 Lockdown of the U K. The Show completely evokes the style of 1960's Television, from the opening titles, credits, music, to even the aspect ratio. This is done as a large Homage to the Gerry Anderson Shows of the time, such as Thunderbirds. | |
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Pibby: Downplayed. The Flintstones scene in the trailer shows Fred and other non-background elements have fake shadows underneath them, emulating the cel animation used in the original show, though otherwise it is not that far off from the "regular" style. The trailer has a brief scene where the background is patterned after an old black and white cartoon, complete with simulated film grain. |
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The Ballad of Narayama: The whole movie is staged in the manner of an old kabuki theater play, starting with a masked joruri who introduces the story, and continuing on with a narrator who comments on the action while playing a samisen. Additionally, the film is shot on obvious stages with obviously painted backdrops. | |
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The Wind Rises takes this further on top of having the 35mm filter, since the film was also mixed in monophonic sound despite being released in 2013, to enhance the feeling of taking place during The Great Depression, just before World War II. | |
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The Digimon Card Game released a booster set called Classic Collection which utilizes art from the original Hyper Colosseum cards for almost every card in the set, including Options. There are also rare alternate art cards with a special edition frame that matches the Hyper Colosseum frames almost exactly, with the only changes being the ones necessary to keep the cards playable in the modern game. | |
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The Blonde Marvel 11-page story "The Thing That Came" was presented as if it had been published in 1955. The artist did it again in early 2012, with a "Municipal City" series, centered on Commander Marvel, that is supposedly fragments of a long-lost 1950s newspaper comic. |
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Far from Heaven, set in The '50s, imitates the look of movies produced back then, specifically Douglas Sirk's movies — the plot is almost lifted from All That Heaven Allows. The score is by Elmer Bernstein, who composed music for several famous films in the '50s. | |
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A mild example in Ultimate Spider-Man: Requiem where in a flashback, the art goes back to Bagley's style, rather than the current penciller for the series, Immonen. | |
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Flipnote Warrior: Flipnote Warrior is made using traditional animation, then exported to Nintendo 3DS's Flipnote Studio, the app it's a tribute to, to make it pixelated, then exported back for art correction and editing. | |
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Regular Show has a very washed-out color scheme, the soundtrack is sourced from a lot of '80s bands, and the characters always play retro-styled video games on a Sega Master System. | |
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Interesting quasi-example in The Limey: Terence Stamp plays an aging gangster, and the film occasionally shows flashback clips of him as a young man in the 1960s. These sequences have the look and quality of a film from that era—because they are from that era. Specifically, they're clips from the 1967 film Poor Cow, one of Stamp's early films. It's a recycling of an existing film, rather than filming a sequence specifically for the film that attempts to replicate the era, in order to produce a retraux feel. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, especially the opening. Lampshaded in the episode about Detuning (doing less than your best): Among the examples for detuning is "Deliberately adding imperfections to give the impression of an old film." followed by a cue card saying "This show does it too". | |
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The clips of Woody's Roundup in Toy Story 2. | |
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To promote Toy Story 3, two commercials made to look like they were from The '80s were commissioned, featuring the defictionalized Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear doll — one English, one Japanese. | |
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In an episode of Futurama, the crew watches a Harold Zoid silent hologram in black-and-white. Futurama packaging and merchandise also often evokes Zeerust aesthetics (like some things in the show— Bender himself is an example). The episode "Reincarnation" has three different segments each done in a different retro style: an early 1930s black and white cartoon, a 1980s 8-bit video game, and a 1970s anime. |
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Apollo 18, in keeping with its Blair Witch-esque premise, is entirely portrayed as found footage from a 1970s space mission, with all the accompanying film grain and video artifacts. | |
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Kaiba looks like a sixties children's anime. | |
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The Venture Bros.: The creators admit a genuine love of fake-aging footage and such, and went through great lengths to get the Season 2 DVD to appear to be (but not actually be) worn and decades old, as if it had been in the trunk of somebody's car for 30 years. And the menu screens are done in the style of an old, old slide-show presentation of what people in The '60s thought the future would be like. The third season was all shot in high definition in order to make the footage quirkier and grainier, not sharper or more vector-ey. And the third-season DVD is presented in the style of an Atari 2600 game, down to the packaging and Pitfall!-style menu screens. | |
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It's not in the actual text, but some printings of The Bible contain supplementary material that looks like a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century pamphlet. For instance, "deluxe" versions of the New American translation contain, in the preface, a "Synchronous History of the Nations, Showing Their Origin, Chief Events, Changes or Extinction, from the Earliest Period Through New Testament Period." This version was printed in 1970. | |
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There were a couple of Scooby-Doo made-for-video movies in 2002-2003, Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico, that were deliberately done in a retro 1970s-esque style to resemble the old Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cartoon series (something that What's New, Scooby-Doo? and the other made-for-video movies of the time generally avoided), even going as far as bringing back the original voice actresses for Daphne and Velma (as Frank Welker was already Fred and Scooby-Doo's main voice actor, and Casey Kasem was still available to voice Shaggy any time he was needed), using synth/keyboard remakes of the classic Scooby-Doo background music, featuring many of the old Hanna-Barbera Stock Sound Effects and even putting the gang in their classic 1970s outfits and designing them in the same manner. | |
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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an Affectionate Parody of 1950s B movies filmed in black and white and complete with bad acting and Special Effects Failure. Its sequel The Lost Skeleton Returns Again is filmed in color and imitates the style of a studio B-Movie from The '60s. | |
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The ending credits of The Tigger Movie run against sepia still images of scenes from the film redrawn in the style of E.H. Shepherd's line drawings from the books. Tigger in particular looks completely different from the Disney version. | |
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Magic: The Gathering's Coldsnap set was designed in the style of the Ice Age and Alliances sets from a decade earlier, most blatantly the use of "slowtrips," the clunky, slow version of cantrips that hadn't been used since less than a year after Alliances. And cumulative upkeep. Don't forget that. The joke set Unhinged, the nostalgia set Time Spiral, and the online-only reprint sets all bring back retired frame designs to evoke this trope. A common special treatment given to various special edition cards is the retro cardframe, making them resemble cards that were released decades earlier instead of the modern ones. |
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The Fairly OddParents!: "The 'Good Old Days!'" had Timmy and his Grandpappy having a misadventure in an Inkblot Cartoon Style world. | |
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A Wounded Fawn: The movie is shot on 16mm film, with visible grain and saturated colors that are meant to emulate the 70s. That said, the movie is very strongly set in the modern era and hides nothing of the technology and trends of the time. | |
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A short on one of the VeggieTales videos, Going Up, is portrayed like a silent film... even though it still uses computer animation and is in color. The trope is played straighter in an alternate "unrestored" version, seen in the Bonus Features for its video (Sumo of the Opera), featuring it in Black and White, with film grain and damage. On the audio front, it lacks any and all sound effects, as well as the French Peas reading out the text cards in the normal version. | |
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A flashback to Velma's childhood in What's New, Scooby-Doo? used recolored versions of the cartoonier A Pup Named Scooby-Doo designs. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle The 1999 Fractured Fairy Tale short "The Phox, the Box and the Lox" (released in theaters with the Live-Action Adaptation of Dudley Do-Right) was animated in the same style as the original 1960s episodes. The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show and the 2018 Rocky and Bullwinkle Amazon series, in spite of both having very modern animation (as opposed to the originals' Limited Animation), have art styles that evoke 1950's and 1960's animation. |
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The Broadway version of Little Shop of Horrors was composed in 1982 with a deliberately 1960s feel, in a nod to the original Roger Corman film. Same goes for the 1986 film remake. | |
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Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule has a faux-VHS look that adds to the show's appeal. They actually recorded the show through a VCR to get that distinctive look. | |
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Italian Spiderman is shot on 16 millimeter film and lazily dubbed in Italian to accurately replicate the kind of foreign B-movies of The '60s that it parodies. | |
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Eerie, Indiana: In "Scariest Home Videos", the Deliberately Monochrome film Bloody Revenge of the Mummy's Curse emulates the style of the Universal Horror films, of which it is an Affectionate Parody. | |
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Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit is a tribute to animated kids' shows of the 80's and 90's; the creators couldn't leave it at being a pastiche of Thunder Cats, SilverHawks and Tiger Sharks or Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombat type shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), Street Sharks and Extreme Dinosaurs among others. They take it all the way, and leave out no detail. They painstakingly recreated the distinctive features of the hand painted cel era; including scratches, dust particles, lineart on the characters, slight dropshadow underneath the characters and foreground, Conspicuously Light Patches and jittering frame. | |
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Life on Mars revelled in this trope for advertising, even going as far as having a recreation of the BBC 1 Colour ident of the 70s precede broadcasting of the second series. The American version did the same with the ABC logo. One episode of Sequel Series Ashes to Ashes (2008) does this for the Show Within a Show, being shot on 1980s style video with very limited lighting and makeup, scratchy sound and cheesy backing music. (link - could arguably be a minor spoiler). |
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Air Master - The anime version ran from 2003-2004 but wouldn't look out of place in early 90s. It's probably an Affectionate Parody. | |
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Serenity was deliberately filmed using old camera lenses to give it a more old-time Western feel. | |
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Garth Marenghis Darkplace genuinely looks like some low-budget sci-fi/horror show from the 1980s, despite having actually been made in 2004. One episode includes the original song "One Track Lover", which is the style of a cheesy pop song from The '80s. | |
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Patient J. When the Joker is relating his first encounter with Batman he says "it was like an old 1940's movie", and the flashback is shown in the style and costumes of The Batman (Serial). Later events are depicted in color, in the style of the 1960's tv show. | |
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Narbonic also had the Dave in Slumberland strips once a year, which were drawn in the style of Little Nemo, and provided immense foreshadowing. | |
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Saturday Night Live: "A Lady's Guide to Throwing a Party", from the January Jones episode in 2009, is shot in the style of an old educational film. | |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) was shot digitally with CGI elements but the film had Post-Processing Video Effects of film grain and gate weave to simulate an older 35mm film, specifically Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which the film is a Spiritual Successor and Stealth Sequel to. | |
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The Peanuts movie Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown is hand-drawn, has the same style as the classic series, and has voices to a similar effect of the originals. | |
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Werewolf by Night (2022) is shot in black-and-white and looks similar to a Universal Horror film with trademarks of said films — jump cuts, use of shadows, paused zoom-ins and even cigarette burns — with a title card that honestly looks like Universal made it themselves. The poster for said film also reflects this by being both aged and creased. | |
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The WNUF Halloween Special is a Found Footage horror film painstakingly made to resemble an actual 1987 small town TV station news broadcast, including cheesy fake low budget commercials. To make it look authentic, the director even went as far as shooting the film digitally, transferring it into VHS and copying it to other tapes five times, in order to achieve the proper degradation that a 1987 recording would suffer. | |
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Big Bang Comics is a pastiche of Golden and Silver Age DC, with the artstyle and writing to match. | |
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CAPTAIN YAJIMA goes even further by combining the aforementioned Rankin/Bass-esque animation with that of anime from the 1970s, even being presented in a 4:3 aspect ratio (the others were in 16:9 widescreen). The short is also entirely in Japanese, with the yellow subtitles often seen in subtitled anime from that era. | |
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Infinity Train has film grain effects. | |
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Winnie the Pooh (2011) follows the style of the original shorts fairly closely, right down to details like photocopy lines and the backgrounds. | |
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The DVD menus of The IT Crowd. The first series is a pastiche of vintage computers, complete with tape loader and extremely elaborate (for a DVD menu) parodies of Head over Heels and Jet Set Willy. And the second series does to 16-bit games what the first did to 8-bit. | |
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Kung Fury is an extended conceptual exercise in 80s nostalgia. Among other things, it uses artificial VHS tape tracking errors as a stylistic technique, as well as aping 80s typefaces, music and anime. | |
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Stranger Things enjoys this trope, befitting its Eighties setting. The opening titles have burn-in, film specks, and slight flickering, making them look like the opening titles to a show from the Eighties. In addition, the show's electronic background music deliberately sounds like something that John Carpenter might have done back then. The Target edition of the season 1 DVD even has a design resembling an old VHS tape. It can be jarring to see modern CGI against the carefully researched early-'80s look. | |
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One sequence in The Incredible Hercules features Herc hallucinating that he's reliving previous adventures due to being poisoned. When action is presented from his view, the comic suddenly appears to shift to a seventies artstyle and coloring. They even pan from Black Widow's modern look to her look from when she was on the Defenders with Hercules to emphasize it. | |
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1989 short film The Lunch Date is shot in black-and-white, with a rather old-timey classical music score and an old-style font for the opening title card. | |
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Part of the scene where Dracula is walking around in the daytime in London in Bram Stoker's Dracula looks like color film from the late 1800s' early 1900s' because the production team got a hold of a period camera, put some modern film inside, and recorded the footage they needed for that scene. | |
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The Incredibles: The newsreel at the beginning. One of the DVD bonus features is an "authorized adaptation" of a Mr. Incredible adventure, in the form of a cheaply animated and simple-minded old kiddie cartoon with considerable "aged recording" noise, very similar to Clutch Cargo. (The cartoon can also be viewed with Mr. Incredible and Frozone chiming in their comments, MST3K-style.) |
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The Cuphead Show!, like the game it's an animated adaptation of, imitates the look of theatrical cartoons from the '30s and '40s (complete with film grain!), though its animation and writing style are more contemporary to its actual release. | |
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In The Great Race, the credits are rendered in the period-appropriate style of a Magic Lantern show. | |
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In Shin Godzilla, the military weapons and Godzilla's flamethrower Atomic Breath use sound effects from the Showa films of the 1950's to the 1970s. | |
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The entire third episode of Senpai Club is this. It's supposed to be from the 1986 adaptation of Senpai Club and thus is done in an '80s style. | |
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La La Land: The film, despite taking place at the present day, was deliberately styled after 1950s and 60s Hollywood musicals, even opening with a CinemaScope title card similar to 20th Century Fox films of the time. The film was shot in 35mm film and used the ultra-wide 2.55:1 aspect ratio of earlier CinemaScope films like The Robe through combining the extra width of Super 35 and anamorphic lenses. (Films shot anamorphic usually use standard film stock for a 2.39:1 aspect ratio; while La La Land uses Super 35 film stock in combination with anamorphic lenses to get the wider 2.55:1 aspect ratio.) | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Pinkie Pie's rap song in "Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3" is clearly styled after a rap music video from the late-80s or early-90s, complete with looking like it was ripped from a VHS recording (fake scan lines, semi-blurry image quality, and the scene is presented in a 4:3 aspect ratio instead of the show's usual 16:9 widescreen). Crosses into Stylistic Suck as the song itself feels more like a parody of cartoons from that era that liked to include rap music in an attempt to be Totally Radical. | |
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The 50th aniversary issue included an insert which imagined what DWM would have looked like in 1964, celebrating a whole year of Doctor Who (DWM actually started in 1979). Highlights included "Galactic Guardian" (because it couldn't have been called Gallifrey Guardian before 1973) and a review of the first Novelization, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, which was incandescent about the fact They Changed It, Now It Sucks! — while being somewhat vague as to what had actually happened in the TV story, because it was a year ago and there wasn't any way of seeing it again. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: In episode 35, a Clip Show, Yami asks Kaiba if he remembers the time the two of them first met, which is shown as 'a time when the video quality wasn't very good, and the audio was all muffled and scratchy'. Clips from the first episode are used in black and white, with a fake moustache and monicle painted onto Kaiba, and a 'silent movie' motif with old-style dialogue printed on the screen and an upbeat piano theme. This is lampshaded by Kaiba moments later when he says he doesn't remember growing a moustache. In Episode 56, Noah Kaiba traps the cast in their memories of the first episode. Once the characters realize what's happening and start speaking original dialog, LittleKuriboh keeps mimicking the awkward line delivery, lack of lip-sync and muffled audio from the early episodes (all of which is lampshaded). |
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The second issue of Star Trek Waypoint has an Affectionate Parody of a Gold Key Star Trek comic, not just with a ridiculous story, not-quite-accurate uniforms, and jet-fire blasting from the warp nacelles, but with white flecks where the ink's "come away". | |
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Wave Twisters: Cover art and video game-like graphics convey Atari-era sensibilities. | |
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The Dear Brother manga came out in the 1970s but the anime came out in the early 1990s. As a result, the anime has a '70s shoujo art-style compared to other contemporary anime. | |
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The 2022 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short is done in style of original silent cartoon (barring the piano track used as background music) that deliberately sticks to the black-and-white aesthetic of the original Disney shorts, complete with artificially-added film grain, and certain items missing from frames for brief split-seconds (such as the cannon Oswald makes out of an exclaimation point). The only thing betraying the retro nature of the short is the fact that most of it's in widescreen, though the Oswald short shown in-universe still uses an era-appropriate aspect ratio. | |
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The Platypus Comix story "Vess MacMeal Starring in: The More You Know!" has drawings resembling 1950s kitschy artwork. | |
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The 1930s style song "The Spirit of Adventure" over Up's closing credits is in lo-fi monophonic sound. | |
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Up | hasFeature |
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Also by Brian M. Bendis, the Golden Age Daredevil features 3 periods of time: the '40s, the '60s and modern day, each drawn in styles reminiscent of what was found in comic books of respective eras. The Retraux is especially noticeable in the colours. | |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot is visually designed to look like an old Disney or Fleischer cartoon complete with the Pie-Eyed pupil designs. It also makes heavy usage of Art Deco in its title cards and a Zeerust style future. | |
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The Larry Sanders Show does this a little: We occasionally see clips of Larry's shows from the five years prior to the start of the series. Not a terribly long time compared to most examples of this trope, but the producers take care to make these clips look different from Larry's "current" shows. Larry's talk show is, itself, rather Retraux. Like Johnny Carson, Larry does a lot of big, broad sketches where Larry and Hank wear elaborate and silly costumes. This style of comedy sketch became more or less extinct in late night after Carson's retirement, however. Characters occasionally remark In-Universe that none of the other talk shows do this sort of thing anymore. |
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Baccano!: In a scene where a character explains his world view that the world exists for his amusement, the show briefly looks like a scratchy film with low-quality sound to mimic movies from the era. Like the Chrono Crusade example below, the American trailer intentionally invokes film from this era by being Deliberately Monochrome, using a "news reel" style narration and backed up by a tinny piano score similar to what a silent film would have. |
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Crystal Heroes: Not so much the comic itself (though it is made using ink and paper), but the playable RPG scene is done in a pseudo 16-bit style. | |
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Crystal Heroes (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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The humorous one-shot Superman/Batman: World's Funnest featured the two magical imps Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite accidentally destroying countless alternate universes, most of them drawn in the style of a certain artist—Curt Swan, Sheldon Mayer, C. C. Beck, Jack Kirby, Alex Ross, Bruce Timm and so on. | |
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Superman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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S.. was deliberately planned to look and feel like a book written and printed in the 1950s. The cover has woodblock print letters and graphic, there's a library sticker on the spine as well as a library "borrowed/returned" stamp in the back (with numerous dates of having been "borrowed"), and all the pages have yellowing and foxing to them. The story itself is written in a faux-translated from German mystery, with decidedly dated word usage and structure. | |
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Good Night, and Good Luck.: Filmed in black and white, with only archive footage of Joe McCarthy used to portray the senator. | |
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Good Night, and Good Luck. | hasFeature |
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The Avengers #1½ resembles an issue from the 60's, and parodies some of the ads. | |
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Knots Landing: In "Silver Shadows", the Silent Movie director Andrew Douglas shows Abby one of his films starring The Lost Lenore Terry Clarrington, who looks exactly like Abby. | |
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The TV version of In the Heat of the Night used a brilliant pastiche of a 1960s title sequence. | |
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Similarly, Impact Wrestling's 2019 Thanksgiving week episode (traditionally a light-hearted, out of continuity episode as the holiday week has few viewers) was made to look like an 80s studio wrestling episode of a fictional regional predecessor. | |
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The Lighthouse: Besides the black-and-white cinematography, the film is deliberately shot on 35mm film and presented in the intentionally cramped 1.19:1 aspect ratio, as was common for films shot in the 1920s and 30s. To enhance the image and make it resemble early photography, a custom cyan filter emulated the look and feel of orthochromatic film from the late 19th century. Also, the audio is deliberately mixed in mono. | |
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The Lighthouse | hasFeature |
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Kill la Kill's art style is evocative of older anime despite airing from late 2013 to early 2014. The use of different art styles is even used to foreshadow a plot point: while the whole show looks like something from the '80s, Doctor Matoi looks like one of those old scientists from 1970s robot anime, and Soichiro Kiryiuin seems to come from an early '90s series. They're actually the same person. Same with the Ninja Slayer ONA, using Limited Animation techniques that ran rampant during '80s and '90s anime as well as being in Square Standard Definition rather than in HD Widescreen. |
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Kill la Kill | hasFeature |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Scenes in colour were mostly shot with modern film in modern cameras, with low-light scenes shot on digital. The footage was then all colour-corrected to give four distinct looks based on old film stocks, changing according to the time period shown and the mood of the scene. Scenes in black and white were shot on black and white film, in director Martin Scorsese's very own hand-cranked 1917 model camera. |
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The war film The Ascent (1977) is made up to look like a film from the 1940s, with its World War II setting, uses of Academy ratio (an aspect ratio long disused by then) and black and white cinematography. | |
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Top Gear did a 1970s style intro for a fake detective series, The Interceptors, complete with era-appropriate Porn Staches. They also applied a very convincing early-1980s videotape look to parts of the "Which Eastern Bloc car was worst" sequence. |
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Top Gear | hasFeature |
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The opening of Silicon Valley looks like a 16-bit SimCity-esque map of Silicon Valley. | |
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The 2005 The Call of Cthulhu movie looks like a silent movie, produced when H. P. Lovecraft first wrote his classic tale. (Even the trailer!). Likewise The Whisperer in Darkness was made is the style of a 1930s Universal Horror movie. | |
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TIME Magazine magazine published a special Bicentennial "July 8, 1776" edition in 1976. The entire issue is written as if Time had actually existed in 1776, with all its usual sections (with a few obvious exceptions like Film and Television.) It apparently sold well, and was followed by a "1789" edition covering the first inauguration of George Washington. More recently, Time has tried to revive its pre-1990s letterhead (the word "TIME" in bright red letters in a smaller font and dead in the center of the top third of the magazine). Really, the only difference now is that the letters aren't outlined in white or yellow. |
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The Moulin Rouge! commentary track mentions how much trouble they went through to put imperfections in the film in order to evoke this. | |
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Moulin Rouge! | hasFeature |
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Same with the Ninja Slayer ONA, using Limited Animation techniques that ran rampant during '80s and '90s anime as well as being in Square Standard Definition rather than in HD Widescreen. | |
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The 4400: The cold opening of "Fifty-Fifty" featured a video of Devon Moore, an employee of the 4400 Center, injecting herself with Promicin. In spite of being produced with a professional camera by wealthy individuals in 2006 and being distributed on the Internet, the video contained static/distortion, minor skips, and VCR tracking lines. This example could arguably also be considered Anachronism Stew. | |
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A number of toy and model kit manufacturers over the years have released older items in current packaging, designed to remind one of the old packaging. Hot Wheels Redliners are still available in some places, Matchbox once released a series of diecasts in modern blister packaging but with a little box similar to their oldest form of packaging included, and Round 2 Models, who own a few of the older brand names of model kits known to older Americans, often use the original box art for kits first released in the 1960s, unless there are legal issues to work around (such as losing the licence for The Munsters while still being allowed to sell the kits of the cars). One problem with that is that the kits haven't been re-tooled since they first came out, such that the tooling is as old as the hills. Another example is the reproduction lithographed tinplate toys currently being released solely for the collector's market. | |
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The Munsters | hasFeature |
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In The Legend of Korra, the Previously on… segments are done in the style of old movies, complete with a grainy sepia effect and an overly-excited announcer. | |
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The Legend of Korra | hasFeature |
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The Mel Gibson crime movie Payback is very stylized film-noir; colors are washed out, characters wear vintage clothing, even the cellular car phones are rotary dial. The film uses Schizo Tech to enhance its atmosphere; the 1930s Art Deco Outfit building along with the aforementioned telephones clash with cars which are mostly from the 70s. The blue-grey color filter was removed in the Director's Cut. |
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Payback | hasFeature |
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In Godzilla (2014), scenes taking place in The '50s are edited to look as if they were shot on film stock of the era. The cinematographer even used a camera lens not used since The '60s. | |
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Godzilla (2014) | hasFeature |
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So did Lois & Clark. | |
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In Bloody Urban, Murray's prescription drug-fueled hallucination features inanimate objects with 30's-style cartoon faces. | |
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Bloody Urban (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Dune (2021) and The Batman (2022), both films with cinematography by Grieg Fraser, were shot digitally and then printed out to 35mm film. This gives the films a cleaner, less-nostalgic look compared to films shot on 35mm but not as clean and artificial as the raw digital film files. | |
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Dune (2021) | hasFeature |
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In Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, the gang is sucked into a video game about their adventures. In the final level they meet themselves (or rather, their video game doubles), who are drawn in the older style. | |
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The alternative comics series Sunnyville Stories was launched in 2010, but its hand drawn artwork done in nib pen more resembles 20th century Newspaper Comics. | |
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Any of the Videlectrix games on Homestar Runner (with the exception of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People): Peasant's Quest and Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque are at least as good, if not actually better, as many of its "contemporaries" which it mimics, such as Leisure Suit Larry, While Stinkoman 20X6 is an homage to the Mega Man (Classic) series. To add to the retrauxness, the employees of Videlectrix are the Brothers Chaps dressed up in polo shirts and fake mustaches. and their games are programmed on an Apple IIe. | |
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The "Snooker Champ" table of Silverball simulates an electro-mechanical pinball table. | |
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Silverball (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The first few seasons of Pretty Cure (Futari wa Pretty Cure, Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star, and Yes! Pretty Cure 5) look as though they were made in the '90s, with an artstyle that emphasizes heavy shading and desaturated colors reminiscent of cel animation. Despite this, the series began in 2004 and was digitally animated throughout; Yes! was even produced in HD widescreen. It's likely this is part of a deliberate Genre Throwback, as Pretty Cure has much more in common with the early '90s Magical Girl Warrior genre than its immediate predecessors did. Starting with Fresh Pretty Cure!, the series takes on a more modern style with bright, eye-popping colors and greater incorporation of digital effects. | |
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Pretty Cure | hasFeature |
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The short-lived Code Monkeys was an animated series done completely in the style of an 8-bit video game, with the cast resembling characters from mid-80s Taito games such as Renegade and Mat Mania. | |
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Code Monkeys | hasFeature |
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Cartoon Action Hour kisses up to the action cartoons of the 1980s. | |
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Firefly was deliberately filmed with old camera lenses to give it that authentic 70s Western feel. | |
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Firefly | hasFeature |
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A Summer's End — Hong Kong, 1986 leans very hard into its '80s aesthetic, from the character art (which has a lot of visual cues from anime of the 80s such as City Hunter and Kimagure Orange Road) to the UI (which is made to resemble an old television with VHS setting menus) to the occasional use of Deliberate VHS Quality. The game's trailer is also deliberately made to evoke the recording of an 80's music video, complete with 4:3 aspect ratio, VHS degradation effects, and rapid jump cuts. | |
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GHOSTBLEED: The Bio Horror is presented as if it were a PlayStation 1 Survival Horror game from the late '90s, and as such, it goes to great lengths to emulate that look. Not only is it done almost entirely in low-poly, PS1-style 3D animation with low-resolution textures, intentionally low framerates, and even the PS1's jittery Z-buffer taken into account, but it also begins and ends with live-action cutscenes, not unlike Resident Evil, which are also rendered with an intentionally low color palette and frame rate to simulate how FMV cutscenes looked on the console. The short even has loading screens in between certain scenes where the sound of a PS1 disc being read can be heard. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Back to the Pilot", Stewie and Brian go back in time to the show's first episode, where everything and everyone except them is drawn as close to the show's cruder first season art style as possible. At the end of the episode, the present version of Peter sits on the couch with Quagmire and his stag party friends from that episode, who are also drawn first season-style. | |
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The Baroque Cycle consistently uses antiquated spellings of words, most often by hyphenating compound words that had yet to become fused together by common usage. | |
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Episode 9 of the second season of Pop Team Epic starts with a segment done in the style of 90s' anime | |
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The Aviator is shot entirely in the color found in film of that era, most notably the part that takes place in the 1930s, which is entirely in red and blue. | |
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Rip Haywire is a parody of old school adventure newspaper comics, so it was drawn in a style typical of the 1940s-1960s. | |
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The Love Witch pays homage to 1960s Technicolor thrillers, complete with the psychedelic colour sensibilities, rear projection, prevalence of smoking, old-school film stock and period fashion and hairdos. Only the presence of modern 21st-century cars and cellphones detract from the overall atmosphere. | |
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Larry's talk show is, itself, rather Retraux. Like Johnny Carson, Larry does a lot of big, broad sketches where Larry and Hank wear elaborate and silly costumes. This style of comedy sketch became more or less extinct in late night after Carson's retirement, however. Characters occasionally remark In-Universe that none of the other talk shows do this sort of thing anymore. | |
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The French musical 8 Women. The look of the film evokes the look of films made in the 1950s, and the songs are all performed in a 1950s style, despite some of them being from as late as the '80s. | |
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How to Hook Up Your Home Theater takes 1940s Goofy (including that famous Lemony Narrator) and puts him in a contemporary setting. You can read about this here. | |
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There are a fair number of other retroclones out there, including OSRIC and Basic Fantasy for 1e. In addition, the makers of "Labyrinth Lord" also made "Mutant Future," which is a close-as-you-can-get-it remake of Gamma World using the Labyrinth Lord rules. | |
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The raw footage of Megalo Box, the 50th anniversary retelling of the 1968 manga Tomorrow's Joe, is downscaled and then re-upscaled to HD to create the effect of making the series seem like an old '90s cel-animated anime that's been remastered. In fact, the character designs and the series' general aesthetics, especially the small details of the setting, harken even farther back, to the mid-'80s Golden Age of Anime, specifically to the influential Sci-Fi, action and cyberpunk titles like Riding Bean, Bubblegum Crisis, Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Wings of Honneamise: Royal Space Force. | |
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Harry Enfield did this a lot in his sketch shows, especially with the Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson sketches on Harry Enfield and Chums. His later series Harry and Paul featured Retraux versions of modern films, such as a 1930s melodramatic version of The Bourne Identity and a silent version of Brokeback Mountain starring Laurel and Hardy. | |
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Deadpool vol 5 #7 (from the Duggan and Posehn run) is supposedly an inventory story from 1979, crossing Deadpool (who, of course, didn't exist at the time to write inventory stories about) into the Iron Man "Demon in a Bottle" storyline, with 70s Spidey and the Power Pack also making appearances. The art and writing style both reflect this, and it even has oversaturated Bronze Age colouring. Later issues in that run follow on from this, having Deadpool show up in what are claimed to be inventory stories from other eras, with the writing and art in the style of those periods. Including one from Deadpool's actual early days, with a Rob Liefeld in-joke as the characters have everything possible hiding their feet. | |
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The Fansproject "Retro-Future" line, originally released in 2013, attempts to duplicate the feel of Transformers designs from the late 1980s (particularly the combiners), with blocky, tiny-headed robots bearing several layers of gimmickry alongside limited articulation. This goes its furthest when dealing with the boxes, which feature very old-fashioned character art, a vaguely Engrish-y tagline ("The Most Wildest Combat Team In The Universe!"), fake damage and wear, and sticker sheets where half the stickers are already applied, as if the original owner couldn't be bothered to finish it. One of them goes so far as to have a completely different box design with all the text written in Korean, a joke on how many collectors end up seeking out releases from different countries to fill out a team, particularly those by Sonokong. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory has simple comedic plots similar to old Fleischer and Disney cartoons, with episodes like "Fantastic Boyage", "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools", and "Last But Not Beast" as examples. The third and fourth seasons, produced in 2001-2003, were intentionally designed and animated in the style of a 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon (which quite a few fans of the show were not very pleased by). One episode was even a complete homage to the original Wacky Races series, complete with the actual music score! Ironically by this time, Cartoon Network Studios was no longer part of Hanna-Barbera, whom had folded into Warner Bros. Animation by that time. |
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The short-lived Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? was deliberately drawn to resemble a late 1970s/early 1980s vintage cartoon. The show even used traditional cel animation at a time when it was rapidly falling out of style in favor of digital ink and paint, just to drive the retro look home; as a result, it became the last new cel-animated series in western animation. | |
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The Totally Rad Show: 5/12/86, where the whole show is done in the style of a 1980s public access show. | |
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Gravity Falls: Xyler and Craz are semi-recurring characters from a Show Within a Show called Dream Boy High, which are sometimes seen in Mabel's imagination. Both it and their character designs have the blocky lines and garish color palette of an 80s cartoon like Jem. "Fight Fighters" features Rumble McSkirmish, a video game character from the eponymous fighting game, appearing in the real world. Rumble is styled after Ken, Ryu, and Sagat from Street Fighter II and rendered completely in 16-bit style graphics (by Paul Robertson, of course), complete with badly translated dialogue ("WINNERS DON'T LOSE!" "YOU CAN HIDE BUT YOU CANNOT HIDE!") and even physical limitations such as not being able to look up or stand still. The game is quite old even in-universe: the arcade cabinet is covered in dust and was made before the fall of the Soviet Union. "Soos and the Real Girl" features another old game, Romance Academy 7, a PC Dating Sim similar to Tokimeki Memorial, apparently from the 1990s. Like Fight Fighters, it has sprite-animation by Paul Robertson and was poorly translated. However, its main character, Giffany, is smart enough to have learned proper English. |
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Cold Case flashbacks are filmed to evoke the period they are from (e.g. black and white for times that predate colour film). In addition, the flashback sequences often feature popular music that likely would have been featured in a TV show episode from whatever year the flashback would have taken place in. Occasionally, Cold Case will feature original music with the style of the episode's time period. For instance, the song "Scarlet Rose" from Season 4's "Static" sounds exactly like a ballad from the late 1950s. |
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Low-budget 1989 independent film Sidewalk Stories is quite similar to The Artist—it isn't shot in the 4:3 aspect ratio, but it is a Deliberately Monochrome Silent Movie, and a remake of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid to boot. | |
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