Tropescilloscope: The '50s

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

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