Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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