Tropescilloscope: Deliberately Monochrome

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

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