Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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