Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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

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