Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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

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