Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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