Tropescilloscope: Beauty Is Never Tarnished

Girls hardly get dirty or scuffed; that takes away from their beauty! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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