Tropescilloscope: The '80s

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

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