Tropescilloscope: The '50s

Set in the 1950s, righto? (read more at tvtropes.org)

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