Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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

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