Tropescilloscope: The '60s

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

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