Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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