Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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