Tropescilloscope: The '60s

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

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