Tropescilloscope: Deliberately Monochrome

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

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