Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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