Tropescilloscope: Deliberately Monochrome

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

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