Tropescilloscope: The '80s

Set in, like the 1980s, totally. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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