History Main / GenreThrowback

* Music/HollywoodUndead, particularly in their later albums, is a throwback to late '90s NuMetal[=/=]RapRock.

* ''Series/Warrior2019'' was developed from Creator/BruceLee's original pitch for the show that ended up becoming ''Series/KungFu1972'', and as such, feels very much like a throwback to the sorts of martial arts movies Lee was making in the '60s and early '70s. There are also quite a few nods (of varying degrees of subtlety) to Bruce Lee's movies, and the hero, Ah Sahm, is essentially an unapologetic BruceLeeClone.

** "Leave the Door Open" (2021): Late [[TheSixties '60s]]/Early '70s Motown Slow Jam R&B somewhat reminiscent of Music/TheTemptations or Music/MarvinGaye (in collaboration with Anderson .Paak as the duo Silk Sonic).

* The Reckless Love does much the same, its first album coming out a little later in 2010. The third album, Spirit, is as obvious a tribute to 80s glam as it gets.

** ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' isn't one of these. The in-story ''Tales of the Black Freighter'' comic, on the other hand, is, homaging the old Creator/ECComics horror/mystery titles of TheFifties. The horror/mystery genre never ''completely'' died out[[note]]DC's own ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'' ran uninterrupted from the early 1950s through the early 1980s, and there was a short-lived revival of the title starring Creator/{{Elvira|MistressOfTheDark}} around the time ''Watchmen'' itself came out[[/note]], but after the rise of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode they were pushed to the margins while superhero comics like Batman and Superman took over the mainstream of the medium. ''Tales of the Black Freighter'' was Moore's take on what the best-selling comic in a world without superhero comics would look like.
* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'' throws in pastiches of comic book genres that were popular in the 1950s (sci-fi, pulp adventure, western, horror, etc.) before being almost completely eclipsed by the superhero genre in UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' wears its indebtedness to UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks on its sleeve.

* ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre'': [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] pulp detective comics and novels.

* ''ComicBook/PinkLemonade'' is a LighterAndSofter [[AlternativeComics Alt-Comic]] done InTheStyleOf UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks (as well as referencing UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks via the character of ex-NinetiesAntiHero Ron Radical).
* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': "Whatever Happened to Cathy Perkins?" is a throwback to the [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] Mod era of ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'' (1968-73) with Diana unexpectedly running into her old supporting character Cathy Perkins after decades, revisiting the bouquet shop they used to run, and fending off the old villain trio of THEM!.

* ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'' -- UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan animation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFVoJQz4a_4 "Apple Thief."]] While it has the same animation style and character design as the series it's based on, is filled with ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''-style gags straight from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The Warner Brothers ([[InsistentTerminology and the Warner Sister]]) can be taken as a throwback to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation and other comedies of the time like those of the Creator/MarxBrothers, especially considering that their backstory is that they were created in the Thirties. Also they stole many, many jokes from them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' was like a tortured, horrifying version of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age cartoons]], complete with animation style and specific gags copied from ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'' (and ''Looney Tunes'' to a lesser extent).

* ''Anime/PrettyCure'' was this to the MagicalGirlWarrior genre after ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' took most of its tropes apart. With added PostModernism and ''Manga/DragonBall''-styled fighting sequences to have it stand out even then. While later seasons were more colorful and brighter, the art style [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure from the first season]] [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar to the third]] resembled more of a {{Retraux}} 80s or 90s shonen anime like their big hit in that era, ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', with later seasons looking like a modernized colorful version of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' style afterwards.

* Psycho-Frame, 9 Dead, Tracheotomy, and Snuffed on Sight are all throwbacks to mid-2000s brutal deathcore, with sounds reminiscent of early Music/SuicideSilence, Music/{{Whitechapel}}, I Declare War, and Impending Doom.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s single "Berzerk" is a throwback to old '90s rap -- primarily the Music/BeastieBoys, even using a rock-based sample, as the Boys were known to do (though the influences range from Music/PublicEnemy to Music/{{NWA}}).

* The music video for "Sabotage" by the Music/BeastieBoys is a throwback homage to '70s television show intros, including spinning scenery shots, people jumping over the hood of cars and cheesy mustaches.

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* Creator/MollyMoon makes Website/TikTok [[https://www.tiktok.com/@mollymoonn2 shorts]] that parody 1990s InteractiveMovie games, with the [[StylisticSuck jank]] and [[UncannyValley awkwardness]] being PlayedForLaughs and a bit of [[PlayedForHorror horror]].

* Singers such as Duffy and the late Music/AmyWinehouse thrived on an "old-fashioned" sound.

* The Neo-Soul genre was a throwback to smooth '70s soul.

* Music/{{Eminem}}:
** Eminem's single "Berzerk" is a throwback to old '90s rap -- primarily the Music/BeastieBoys, even using a rock-based sample, as the Boys were known to do (though the influences range from Music/PublicEnemy to Music/{{NWA}}).

* The [[http://youtu.be/t66oD-Y1GhA?t=1h18m20s "Confiteor"]] in J.S. Bach's ''Mass in B Minor'' was written to evoke Gregorian Chant, which was already ancient by Bach's time, and late into the movement a Gregorian Chant-style cantus firmus appears, accentuated above the rest of the voices.

* Meghan Trainor's style (mostly on her debut album ''Title'') is very reminiscent of '50s {{doowop}}, with hints of '60s Creator/{{Motown}} thrown in.

* Wristmeetrazor, [=SeeYouSpaceCowboy=], and .gif from god are throwbacks to the type of mathcore and mathgrind that was popular on [=MySpace=] and a mainstay of VFW and Elks Lodge shows in the early 2000s, inviting comparisons to acts like Norma Jean, The Bled, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Fear Before the March of Flames, and The Fall of Troy. Furthermore, [=SeeYouSpaceCowboy's=] ''The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds'' wound up being a different type of throwback to very early melodic metalcore ala 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Poison the Well, and mid-era Zao, and [[WordOfGod Connie Sgarbossa confirmed]] that that was a deliberate choice.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' does a bit of this and a bit of parody with 1960s action shows like ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' and such, plus a hefty dose of increased badass. Instead of plots about random monsters, we get genuine nightmare fuel about a dead twin-brother still living inside his twin and eventually building a robot body for itself.

* Tactosa, 9 Dead, Tracheotomy, and Snuffed on Sight are all throwbacks to mid-2000s brutal deathcore, with sounds reminiscent of early Music/SuicideSilence, Music/{{Whitechapel}}, I Declare War, and Impending Doom.

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* The girl group Music/MeetMe@TheAltar have released several pop punk rock songs that sound too similar to PopPunk from The2000s.

* "Planet of the Bass" by DJ Crazy Times is an AffectionateParody of European Dance Pop of TheNineties.

* Rob Zombie described ''The Haunted World of El Superbeasto'' as an attempt to make an R rated version of classic ''Looney Tunes''.

* ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' is heavily inspired by Atomic Age horror comics, as well as the earliest portrayal of the Hulk by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby, but with a contemporary spin.

* ''Literature/SheepsClothing'' deliberately hearkens back to the darker, Creator/BramStoker style vampires as a deliberate rejection of the romantic ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''-style vampires.

* ''ComicBook/SinCity' takes its cues from FilmNoir books and films, as well as {{Exploitation Film}}s, despite being a comic book series. It was eventually made into a [[TheMovie movie]] where the homages were perhaps more apparent.