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