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