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