Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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