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