Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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