Tropescilloscope: The '60s

Like, set in the 1960s, maaan. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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