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