Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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