Tropescilloscope: The '50s

Set in the 1950s, righto? (read more at tvtropes.org)

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