Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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