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