Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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