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