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