Tropescilloscope: The '50s

Set in the 1950s, righto? (read more at tvtropes.org)

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