Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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