Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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