Tropescilloscope: What You Are in the Dark

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

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Is a Crapshoot Red Oni, Blue Oni Last-Name Basis Adaptation Distillation Slasher Movie Fiery Redhead Catch-Phrase The '70s No-Sell The Mole Adapted Out Slashed Throat Genre Savvy Good Is Not Nice One Steve Limit And Starring Heroic BSoD Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Big Bad Duumvirate Rewatch Bonus Kick the Son of a Bitch Novelization Random Events Plot Tagline As the Good Book Says... Fanservice Intrepid Reporter Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Names to Run Away from Really Fast Sequel Hook Nice Guy Sports Stories Did Not Get the Girl Abhorrent Admirer "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Slasher Smile Shell-Shocked Veteran Fourth Date Marriage Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Author Avatar Large Ham The Sociopath Foregone Conclusion Badass Normal Important Haircut Taking You with Me What Happened to the Mouse? 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Funny Background Event Bloodless Carnage Five-Man Band Jerkass Has a Point Betty and Veronica The Brute Science Fiction Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Wham Shot Self-Deprecation Villain with Good Publicity Bald of Evil Faking the Dead A Minor Kidroduction Genre Shift Affably Evil Bunny-Ears Lawyer Ship Tease Artistic License – Physics Rule of Funny Ambiguously Gay Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Green-Eyed Monster Eldritch Abomination Mystery and Detective Films Never Found the Body Motor Mouth You Killed My Father Morality Pet Not So Different Papa Wolf The Great Depression Australian Movies The Mafia Insistent Terminology Artistic License – History Dying Moment of Awesome Sir Swears-a-Lot Get Out! 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