Tropescilloscope: What You Are in the Dark

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

More Tropes From Nobody to Nightmare Deliberate Values Dissonance The Film of the Book Training Montage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Jerkass Has a Point Big "NO!" The Dragon All Men Are Perverts Overly Long Gag Insistent Terminology Self-Deprecation British Films Show Within a Show Sealed Evil in a Can Almost Kiss Attempted Rape Dark and Troubled Past Be Careful What You Wish For Based on a True Story As You Know Rule of Funny Foreshadowing All Just a Dream Hero Antagonist Breaking the Fourth Wall Bad Boss Retcon Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Russian Films Nice Guy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Stepford Smiler Disguised in Drag The Ditz The Un-Reveal How We Got Here Creative Closing Credits Shut Up, Hannibal! A God Am I Cold-Blooded Torture Disney Death Works Set in World War II Retirony Hero of Another Story Demoted to Extra For the Evulz Time Skip Meet Cute "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bittersweet Ending Say My Name Idiot Ball Daddy's Girl Real Life Writes the Plot Sequel Escalation Recycled IN SPACE! Advertised Extra Anachronism Stew Comically Missing the Point No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Shell-Shocked Veteran Easily Forgiven Properly Paranoid Vitriolic Best Buds Room Full of Crazy Posthumous Character Genre Shift Hong Kong Films German Films Historical Villain Upgrade Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Stylistic Suck Smoking Is Cool Humiliation Conga The End... Or Is It? Determinator Disproportionate Retribution You Killed My Father Daylight Horror Oh, Crap! Villain Ball Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Genre Throwback Air-Vent Passageway Moment Killer I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Boom, Headshot! Pay Evil unto Evil Only a Flesh Wound Adaptational Attractiveness Hair-Trigger Temper The '90s What the Hell, Hero? 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Is Serious Business 20 Minutes into the Future Obstructive Bureaucrat Wham Shot "Well Done, Son!" Guy Real Life Intrepid Reporter Throwing Your Sword Always Works Covers Always Lie Kubrick Stare Romantic Comedy Tagline Psychological Thriller Toplessness from the Back Heroes Want Redheads Leave the Camera Running Shirtless Scene Annoying Younger Sibling Reality Has No Subtitles The Reveal You Have Outlived Your Usefulness "The Reason You Suck" Speech Once More, with Clarity! Dwindling Party Mugging the Monster Bait-and-Switch Scenery Porn Heel Realization Wounded Gazelle Gambit Manipulative Bastard Major Injury Underreaction Stock Footage Driven to Suicide Accidental Murder Dissonant Serenity The Lancer Author Avatar Dark Reprise Heel–Face Turn Small Name, Big Ego Fish out of Water Insane Troll Logic Hooker with a Heart of Gold Historical In-Joke Groin Attack Hypocritical Humor Faux Affably Evil The Smurfette Principle Unwitting Instigator of Doom Animal Title Index All for Nothing Let's Get Dangerous! Dramedy Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Apocalypse How The Alcoholic Sassy Black Woman Ms. Fanservice Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Fire-Forged Friends Fingore Beta Couple Arranged Marriage Dirty Coward Sinister Minister Award-Bait Song Not Quite Dead Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Mafia More Dakka Spell My Name with an "S" Beware the Nice Ones Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Five-Man Band Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Eiffel Tower Effect A.I. Is a Crapshoot Knight Templar Creepy Child Cat Scare Rated M for Manly Cassandra Truth Ominous Latin Chanting Logo Joke Dark Action Girl Japanese Films This Is Gonna Suck Yandere Cluster F-Bomb Naïve Newcomer Lampshade Hanging Parental Incest And I Must Scream It's All About Me Mama Bear In Name Only The Faceless Dramatic Gun Cock Slasher Movie Only in It for the Money I Did What I Had to Do I Have Your Wife The Stoner Greater-Scope Villain Suspiciously Specific Denial Disappeared Dad Accidental Misnaming Fatal Family Photo Bar Brawl Fantasy Films Everyone Has Standards Mercy Kill Author Appeal Love at First Sight Scary Black Man Belligerent Sexual Tension Developing Doomed Characters Older Than They Look Adaptation Name Change Bring My Brown Pants Heterosexual Life-Partners Fate Worse than Death Freeze-Frame Bonus Gender Flip Ugly Guy, Hot Wife B-Movie Better to Die than Be Killed Overprotective Dad Stealth Pun Flipping the Bird Cruel and Unusual Death Instant Death Bullet The Quiet One Villain Protagonist The Load Evil Laugh Translation Convention Affectionate Parody Taking You with Me Kick the Dog Dies Wide Open Hidden Depths One-Word Title Badass in a Nice Suit Male Gaze May–December Romance Camera Abuse Big Bad Duumvirate Leaning on the Fourth Wall Police are Useless Badass Bookworm No Name Given Grievous Bottley Harm Rich Bitch Badass Boast Call-Back Awesome, but Impractical Brainless Beauty Epic Movie Calling the Old Man Out She's Got Legs Mr. Exposition Fake Shemp Unspoken Plan Guarantee A Father to His Men Punny Name The Remake Interrupted Suicide Death by Adaptation Big-Bad Ensemble Wrong Genre Savvy The Cavalry A Minor Kidroduction Diabolus ex Machina Double Entendre Darker and Edgier Whole Plot Reference Artistic License – Geography Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dogged Nice Guy Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Big Bad Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bland-Name Product Dying Moment of Awesome Blood Knight Bowdlerise Slasher Smile Guile Hero Spiritual Successor Amoral Attorney After the End Trailers Always Spoil Captain Obvious Exact Words Horror Comedy Cool Guns The Atoner Laughing Mad Rule of Symbolism Car Fu Cloudcuckoolander Informed Ability Not Using the "Z" Word Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Super Strength Market-Based Title Woman Scorned Stalker with a Crush Meaningful Background Event Adaptation Expansion What Happened to the Mouse? Aside Glance Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Cameo Papa Wolf Mood Whiplash Villain with Good Publicity Cowboy Cop Those Two Bad Guys Anyone Can Die Red Oni, Blue Oni Lighter and Softer The Hero Mad Scientist An Arm and a Leg