Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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