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