Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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