Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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

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