Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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