Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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

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