Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

Set during the 1930s/The Great Depression, joe! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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