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