Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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