Tropescilloscope: Pretty in Mink

Furs are glamorous, show wealth, and help pretty up a scene. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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