Tropescilloscope: The '60s

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

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