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