Tropescilloscope: Pretty in Mink

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

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Overprotective Dad Empathic Environment "Awesome McCool" Name Better to Die than Be Killed Spiteful Spit Historical-Domain Character Shirtless Scene And Starring Adaptation Name Change Based on a True Story Funny Foreigner Sassy Black Woman Real Life Continuity Nod Chekhov's Gunman One-Word Title Jerkass Has a Point Yandere Informed Ability Demoted to Extra Morality Pet Pre-Mortem One-Liner Failed a Spot Check Wham Line Double Entendre Adaptation Distillation Big Bad Duumvirate Deal with the Devil Comically Missing the Point Improbable Aiming Skills Have a Gay Old Time Malevolent Masked Men Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Moment Killer Random Events Plot Evil-Detecting Dog Rasputinian Death Earn Your Happy Ending Agony of the Feet Cold-Blooded Torture Mood Whiplash Blackmail Red Herring Early-Bird Cameo Public Domain Feature Films Pimped-Out Dress Anti-Hero Sequel Hook Shout-Out Big Applesauce Big-Bad Ensemble Jump Scare Dramedy Groin Attack Danny Peary Cult Movies List Foreshadowing There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dual Wielding Novelization Disproportionate Retribution Vacation Films Training Montage Took a Level in Jerkass More Dakka Bilingual Bonus Shower Scene Batman Gambit Despair Event Horizon Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Made of Iron Mystery and Detective Films Punny Name Red Right Hand Star-Crossed Lovers Heterosexual Life-Partners Really Gets Around No Name Given Adaptational Badass Rousing Speech Too Dumb to Live Fanservice Anachronic Order Fatal Flaw Revenge Unreliable Narrator Disney Death Bury Your Gays Face Death with Dignity You Have Failed Me Award-Bait Song And I Must Scream Dramatic Irony Sports Stories Chekhov's Gun Decoy Protagonist Coming-of-Age Story Dies Wide Open Greater-Scope Villain Politically Incorrect Villain Freeze-Frame Bonus Pretty Little Headshots Neck Lift Facial Horror Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality What You Are in the Dark Air-Vent Passageway Peek-a-Boo Corpse Retired Badass The Casanova Does This Remind You of Anything? Defrosting Ice Queen Rule of Three As Himself How We Got Here Damsel in Distress Famous Last Words Anachronism Stew Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Fingore Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sacrificial Lion Age Lift Zombie Stories Hooker with a Heart of Gold Cowboy Cop Meaningful Name Well-Intentioned Extremist The Mole Be Careful What You Wish For Adaptation Dye-Job Canon Foreigner Kubrick Stare The Ghost Gory Discretion Shot Overly Long Gag Catapult Nightmare Playing Gertrude My Beloved Smother Badass Boast Fun with Acronyms Expository Hairstyle Change Fan Disservice The Chick Blood Knight Heroes Want Redheads NO INDOOR VOICE Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sexy Discretion Shot The Smurfette Principle Meaningful Background Event Children Are Innocent Creepy Child Cat Fight Hero Antagonist No Antagonist Humiliation Conga Mind Screw I'm a Humanitarian Cluster F-Bomb Leitmotif Artistic License – Physics For Want of a Nail Fourth Date Marriage Retirony Music Stories Foregone Conclusion Chiaroscuro Action Prologue Lighter and Softer Break the Cutie Hypocritical Humor Deus ex Machina Foil My Greatest Failure The Load Mercy Kill The Bad Guy Wins Once More, with Clarity! 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Corrupt Corporate Executive Jitter Cam Tranquil Fury Japanese Films Psycho for Hire Badass Normal Ambiguous Ending Toplessness from the Back After the End Awesome, but Impractical Market-Based Title Here We Go Again! Fish out of Water Villainous Breakdown Not So Different Corpsing Ass Shove Evil Brit Never My Fault Video Credits Actually Pretty Funny Bolivian Army Ending Actor Allusion Death by Irony Race Lift Offscreen Teleportation Get Out! Papa Wolf Slasher Movie Say My Name Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Villain Song Cloudcuckoolander Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mistaken for Gay I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Gender Flip Curb-Stomp Battle MacGuffin Credits Gag Martial Arts Movie A God Am I Tempting Fate Insistent Terminology Very Loosely Based on a True Story Soft Glass Alliterative Name You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Stuff Blowing Up Break the Haughty Trailers Always Spoil He Knows Too Much All There in the Script Nothing Is Scarier Daddy's Girl Affectionate Parody Ominous Latin Chanting Villain with Good Publicity Rule of Symbolism Psychological Thriller Scenery Porn The Power of Love Eye Scream The Mafia Running Gag BFG Animal Motifs Freudian Excuse Re-Cut Redemption Equals Death Hate Sink Brutal Honesty Henpecked Husband Bad "Bad Acting" Hollywood Law Plucky Comic Relief Everyone Has Standards Epic Fail Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Knife Nut Show Within a Show Title Drop Slap-Slap-Kiss Epic Movie Cool Guns All for Nothing Antagonist Title The Stoic Russian Films Time Skip Bald of Evil Calling the Old Man Out Love at First Sight Mad Scientist Black Comedy Rape Visual Pun Major Injury Underreaction It's All About Me Recycled IN SPACE! Composite Character No-Sell Improbable Weapon User Silence Is Golden Instant Death Bullet Red Eyes, Take Warning Arch-Enemy Badass Grandpa Police Brutality The Cameo Mighty Whitey Film Noir Index Alas, Poor Villain Butt-Monkey Captain Obvious Crazy Jealous Guy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Reveal Green-Eyed Monster Adaptational Heroism Back from the Dead Interrupted Suicide May–December Romance Taking You with Me No Ending Defiant to the End Idiot Ball Apocalypse How Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Hero Disguised in Drag Intergenerational Friendship The End... Or Is It? Black Comedy Pyrrhic Victory Vitriolic Best Buds Stock Footage Never Found the Body Karmic Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Downer Ending Crazy-Prepared Ambiguous Disorder Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Broken Pedestal Anguished Declaration of Love Frame-Up Dressing as the Enemy Poor Communication Kills Neck Snap Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Place One Steve Limit Department of Redundancy Department Kill It with Fire Conspicuous CG Wicked Cultured Scary Black Man Adorkable The Quiet One Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Every Car Is a Pinto Historical In-Joke Eureka Moment Animal Title Index Mythology Gag Older Than They Look Immune to Bullets Wounded Gazelle Gambit Car Fu Missing Mom Fantastic Racism Black Best Friend Manly Tears Amusing Injuries She's Got Legs Skewed Priorities The Chessmaster Australian Movies Retcon Big "NO!" Anti-Villain Refuge in Audacity Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Lost Lenore Evil Plan Reality Is Unrealistic Killed Mid-Sentence Mama Bear Suddenly SHOUTING! The Cavalry No Celebrities Were Harmed You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Expy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Fantasy Films Silent Movie Fate Worse than Death Names to Run Away from Really Fast Flashback Spell My Name with an "S" Blood from the Mouth Taking the Bullet The '50s Authority Equals Asskicking Hair-Trigger Temper One-Man Army Gold Digger Parental Incest Oh, Crap! Hidden Depths Chekhov's Skill Offscreen Moment of Awesome Not So Stoic Brick Joke Parental Abandonment Precision F-Strike Dark Is Not Evil Laser-Guided Karma Adaptation Expansion Bland-Name Product The Voiceless Drugs Are Bad The Remake Sole Survivor Action Girl Jerkass Worthy Opponent The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Military True Companions Double-Meaning Title The Bully This Is Gonna Suck Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Casting Gag Stepford Smiler Smug Snake Ship Tease Amoral Attorney Attempted Rape Not So Above It All Properly Paranoid Psychopathic Manchild Stylistic Suck Reality Has No Subtitles Red Oni, Blue Oni Bloodier and Gorier Tagline Black and Gray Morality Index of Film Westerns A Date with Rosie Palms Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Bottomless Magazines Book-Ends Biopic Not Using the "Z" Word Didn't Think This Through Combat Pragmatist Implacable Man Product Placement Only One Name Not Even Bothering with the Accent Beard of Evil Curse Cut Short Loads and Loads of Characters Not Quite Dead Aside Glance Heel–Face Turn Setting Update Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Stoner Hong Kong Films Those Wacky Nazis The Un-Reveal Love Triangle Never Trust a Trailer All Girls Want Bad Boys Dark and Troubled Past Stalker with a Crush "Shaggy Dog" Story For the Evulz Dramatic Gun Cock No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Drill Sergeant Nasty Meet Cute Not What It Looks Like Sinister Minister Evil Sounds Deep Black Dude Dies First Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Blatant Lies Guns Akimbo Irony "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Ace An Aesop Hero of Another Story Adapted Out Dissonant Serenity Pet the Dog Diabolus ex Machina Whole Plot Reference From Bad to Worse Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ambiguously Gay The Faceless Dwindling Party Improvised Weapon Spanner in the Works Motor Mouth Artistic License – Biology Author Appeal Dark Action Girl Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Anyone Can Die Gratuitous English Storming the Castle Self-Deprecation Faking the Dead Ms. Fanservice Intrepid Reporter Up to Eleven Death by Sex Enemy Mine Call-Back Handicapped Badass Does Not Like Shoes The X of Y Body Horror Dumb Blonde Broken Aesop It Will Never Catch On Bar Brawl '80s Hair Bloodless Carnage The '60s Slashed Throat Together in Death Distracted by the Sexy Parental Neglect Big Bad Sanity Slippage Punch-Clock Villain Your Cheating Heart The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mugging the Monster "The Reason You Suck" Speech Insane Troll Logic The Musical Badass Bookworm Riddle for the Ages Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Easily Forgiven Karma Houdini Arc Words The Starscream Dirty Cop Obstructive Bureaucrat Off-into-the-Distance Ending Happily Married Rape as Drama Dropped a Bridge on Him Affably Evil Bound and Gagged The Ditz And the Adventure Continues Developing Doomed Characters Our Zombies Are Different Meaningful Echo Bring My Brown Pants Adults Are Useless Spiritual Successor The Hero Dies Humans Are Bastards A Minor Kidroduction Word of God Cruel and Unusual Death It Can Think Thriller Friend to All Children Genre Throwback Knight Templar Gorn Artistic License – Geography Fire-Forged Friends The Big Guy Boom, Headshot! Smoking Is Cool Crucified Hero Shot