Tropescilloscope: The '60s

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

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