Tropescilloscope: Red Oni, Blue Oni

Two characters, one passionate, headstrong and wild (red), and the other level-headed, collected and rational (blue), are associated with each other for contrast. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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