Tropescilloscope: Pretty in Mink

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

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