Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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

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