Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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