Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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