Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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

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