Tropescilloscope: The '80s

Set in, like the 1980s, totally. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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