Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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