Tropescilloscope: Deliberately Monochrome

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

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