Tropescilloscope: The '70s

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