Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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