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