Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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