Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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