Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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