Tropescilloscope: The Great Depression

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

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