Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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