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