Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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