Tropescilloscope: Deliberately Monochrome

Limited color palette on purpose. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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