Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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