Tropescilloscope: The '60s

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

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