Tropescilloscope: What You Are in the Dark

A person shows their true colors in private. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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