Tropescilloscope: '80s Hair

Hairstyles from the 1980s (i.e., big, poofy bouffants, Joe Piscopo-style man perms, jheri curls, crimped ponytails on teenaged girls, mullets, mohawks, etc) (read more at tvtropes.org)

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