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