Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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