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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Dirty Old Man Wham Shot From Bad to Worse Authority Equals Asskicking The Alcoholic German Films Epic Fail Hair-Trigger Temper Shower Scene Blood from the Mouth No-Sell The Ditz Mercy Kill Villain Song Film Noir Improbable Weapon User Death Seeker Broken Bird No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Eiffel Tower Effect Anguished Declaration of Love Killed Mid-Sentence An Arm and a Leg Bring My Brown Pants The Alleged Car Pre-Mortem One-Liner Mighty Whitey Punch-Clock Villain Soundtrack Dissonance Badass Grandpa Driven to Suicide The Dog Bites Back Ms. Fanservice All There in the Manual Cool Car Large Ham Very Loosely Based on a True Story Science Fiction Films Stalker with a Crush A.I. Is a Crapshoot Major Injury Underreaction Fan Disservice The Power of Love Ripped from the Headlines Adaptational Heroism Final Girl Insane Troll Logic Totally Radical Central Theme Anachronism Stew Neck Snap Badass in a Nice Suit Adaptation Name Change Downer Ending Wrong Genre Savvy The Remake Dark Reprise Ironic Echo Mooks Obstructive Bureaucrat Bait-and-Switch Unreliable Narrator Expository Hairstyle Change Disappeared Dad Left the Background Music On As You Know Creative Closing Credits Truth in Television Token Minority Anti-Hero Greater-Scope Villain Evil Brit Narrator Meaningful Echo Amoral Attorney Call-Back Heel Realization No Celebrities Were Harmed In Medias Res Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Actually Pretty Funny Military and Warfare Films Big Fancy House Evil-Detecting Dog The Hero Dies Make It Look Like an Accident Naked People Are Funny Australian Movies Jerk Jock Gory Discretion Shot Gilligan Cut Wounded Gazelle Gambit What You Are in the Dark Heel–Face Turn Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Hollywood Darkness Adaptation Dye-Job Evil vs. Evil Diabolus ex Machina Star-Crossed Lovers As Long as It Sounds Foreign Retcon Deliberate Values Dissonance Wretched Hive Those Two Guys Villainous Breakdown Good Is Not Nice Lock and Load Montage Police are Useless Fake Shemp Unusually Uninteresting Sight Taking the Bullet Dirty Coward Faux Affably Evil Cool Old Lady Sinister Minister Alliterative Name Love Triangle Implacable Man Ambiguously Gay B-Movie Training Montage Tranquil Fury "Shaggy Dog" Story Evil Plan Cool Old Guy Kick the Son of a Bitch Extremely Short Timespan Karmic Death Casting Gag Spell My Name with an "S" Dies Wide Open Grievous Bottley Harm Kick the Dog After the End Big "NO!" Earn Your Happy Ending Once More, with Clarity! 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Instant Death Bullet Red Eyes, Take Warning Never My Fault The Smurfette Principle I Did What I Had to Do Light Is Not Good The Quiet One Cloudcuckoolander Plot Hole Closed Circle Anyone Can Die Bullying a Dragon Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Retired Badass Frame-Up Show Within a Show Pragmatic Villainy Adaptation Distillation Loophole Abuse The Smart Guy Leitmotif You Killed My Father Mind Screw Brutal Honesty Beard of Evil Rasputinian Death Let's Get Dangerous! Freudian Excuse The '60s Bi the Way Index of Film Westerns Shirtless Scene Alas, Poor Villain All Girls Want Bad Boys Determinator Dramatic Gun Cock Action Survivor Adaptation Expansion Dark Action Girl Riddle for the Ages Silence Is Golden Disney Death Drill Sergeant Nasty The Ace Get Out! Funny Background Event Russian Films Bottomless Magazines My God, What Have I Done? 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