Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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