Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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