Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

Set during the 1930s/The Great Depression, joe! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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