Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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