Tropescilloscope: What You Are in the Dark

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

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Heroes Want Redheads The Lost Lenore Hollywood Law Honor Before Reason Karma Houdini Say My Name Adaptational Villainy Pyrrhic Victory Did Not Get the Girl Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Eiffel Tower Effect Punny Name Cat Scare Dies Wide Open Freeze-Frame Bonus Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Stock Footage Funny Background Event Drugs Are Bad Those Wacky Nazis Not So Above It All Brainless Beauty War Is Hell Dramedy I'm a Humanitarian Sequel Hook Man on Fire The Mole Blood from the Mouth Plucky Comic Relief The Chessmaster I Need a Freaking Drink Damsel in Distress Martial Arts Movie Obstructive Bureaucrat Those Two Bad Guys Hoist by His Own Petard Manic Pixie Dream Girl timeperiod After the End Dull Surprise The Stoner Ungrateful Bastard Scenery Gorn Arc Words Captain Obvious The '70s Random Events Plot Match Cut folderlabel Informed Ability Made of Iron Evil Laugh Rich Bitch Boom, Headshot! Slashed Throat Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Lampshade Hanging Fat Bastard Covers Always Lie Dirty Coward Very Loosely Based on a True Story From Bad to Worse Artistic License – History Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Genre Shift Creator Cameo Self-Deprecation Precision F-Strike In Name Only Humans Are Bastards Outrun the Fireball Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Back from the Dead Logo Joke Parental Incest Anachronism Stew Sir Swears-a-Lot What Happened to the Mouse? Black Dude Dies First Enemy Mine Jitter Cam The Ghost Does This Remind You of Anything? 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And the Adventure Continues Those Two Guys Adaptational Heroism Camera Abuse Spell My Name with an "S" Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Awesome, but Impractical Rule of Cool Department of Redundancy Department Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hair-Trigger Temper Take a Third Option Handicapped Badass No Name Given Wrong Genre Savvy The Dreaded Heel–Face Turn Canadian Movies A Father to His Men Real Life Writes the Plot Sports Stories And I Must Scream Left the Background Music On Took a Level in Jerkass Redshirt Army Combat Pragmatist Breaking the Fourth Wall Death of a Child Deadpan Snarker Rewatch Bonus Grey and Gray Morality Monumental Damage Green-Eyed Monster Ambiguous Disorder Translation Convention Despair Event Horizon Italian Films Call-Forward Faking the Dead Darkest Hour Fatal Flaw Meet Cute The Bully Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Show Within a Show Big Bad Duumvirate Better to Die than Be Killed BFG French Films The Cameo Big Bad Evil Counterpart Fish out of Water Take That! One-Man Army You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hidden Depths Disproportionate Retribution She Cleans Up Nicely Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Broken Bird Black Best Friend Silent Movie Crazy Jealous Guy Police are Useless Jump Scare 20 Minutes into the Future Australian Movies Accidental Misnaming All There in the Script Reality Has No Subtitles Agony of the Feet Evil Is Petty Evil Plan Bloodless Carnage Heroic BSoD Cool Old Lady Product Placement My Greatest Failure Artistic License – Law Kubrick Stare The Place Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Pre-Mortem One-Liner As the Good Book Says... Deal with the Devil Adapted Out Plot Hole Refuge in Audacity '80s Hair Hero of Another Story Humiliation Conga Twist Ending Offscreen Teleportation Based on a True Story "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue One-Word Title Accidental Murder Reality Is Unrealistic Epic Movie All for Nothing The Big Guy Get Out! Tagline This Is Gonna Suck Berserk Button Here We Go Again! 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Celebrity Paradox Action Girl Cowboy Cop Children Are Innocent Our Zombies Are Different Fanservice Extra Deliberate Values Dissonance Parental Substitute Fate Worse than Death Jerkass Yandere Anyone Can Die Bland-Name Product Continuity Nod Ms. Fanservice "Well Done, Son!" Guy Fatal Family Photo Drill Sergeant Nasty Broken Aesop Parental Neglect Leaning on the Fourth Wall Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Scary Black Man Jerk Jock Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Casanova Failed a Spot Check Expository Hairstyle Change Evil Brit The Film of the Book Flipping the Bird Men Are the Expendable Gender Card-Carrying Villain Bolivian Army Ending Deliberately Monochrome Psychological Thriller Mad Scientist Rule of Three Spiteful Spit Pragmatic Adaptation Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Make It Look Like an Accident Never Found the Body Corpsing Ripped from the Headlines And Starring "The Reason You Suck" Speech As Long as It Sounds Foreign Ambiguously Gay A Date with Rosie Palms Black Comedy Rape Exact Words Bad "Bad Acting" Sanity Slippage Training Montage Obfuscating Stupidity Skewed Priorities Revenge Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Butt-Monkey Light Is Not Good Five-Man Band Kick the Son of a Bitch Historical Hero Upgrade Redemption Equals Death Action Prologue Calling the Old Man Out Dramatic Irony Knife Nut Air-Vent Passageway Artistic License – Physics Dumb Blonde Woman in White Downer Ending She's Got Legs Paper-Thin Disguise The Starscream Names to Run Away from Really Fast Unusually Uninteresting Sight Pragmatic Villainy Foreshadowing Annoying Younger Sibling Adults Are Useless La Résistance Music Stories The End... Or Is It? Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Loads and Loads of Characters Interrupted Suicide O.O.C. Is Serious Business Earn Your Happy Ending No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bunny-Ears Lawyer Amusing Injuries It's All About Me Demonic Possession Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Crazy-Prepared Not Using the "Z" Word Sci-Fi Horror Motor Mouth Mood Whiplash Toplessness from the Back Fanservice Scare Chord A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Stoic Bi the Way Batman Gambit Face–Heel Turn Only Sane Man The Un-Reveal Catapult Nightmare Bait-and-Switch Babies Ever After How We Got Here The Oner The Mafia Morality Pet Abusive Parents Curse Cut Short Bound and Gagged Biopic Bittersweet Ending Age Lift All Just a Dream Bare Your Midriff Really Gets Around Badass Grandpa I Have Your Wife Mr. Fanservice It's Personal Anti-Villain Ax-Crazy Knight Templar Author Appeal Fiery Redhead Even Evil Has Standards An Axe to Grind Brick Joke As Himself Fan Disservice Lock and Load Montage The Quiet One Animal Title Index The '90s Love at First Sight The Load Spanner in the Works Evil Is Hammy Diabolus ex Machina Bavarian Fire Drill Fire-Forged Friends Sadistic Choice Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ugly Guy, Hot Wife German Films Chase Scene Dropped a Bridge on Him Developing Doomed Characters Dark and Troubled Past Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Animal Motifs Stealth Pun Bald of Evil Beta Couple The Ditz Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Dog Bites Back The '80s Armor-Piercing Question Put on a Bus Blatant Lies Pay Evil unto Evil Fourth Date Marriage Your Cheating Heart Cruel and Unusual Death Spared by the Adaptation Shut Up, Hannibal! There Is No Kill Like Overkill Needs Wiki Magic Love Cool Car Improbable Aiming Skills Silence Is Golden Jerkass Has a Point All There in the Manual Taking the Bullet Eureka Moment Cain and Abel Parental Abandonment Overly Long Gag Gainax Ending Sacrificial Lion Kick the Dog Retired Badass Chiaroscuro For the Evulz You Have Failed Me Red Eyes, Take Warning Room Full of Crazy Double-Meaning Title Adult Fear Only in It for the Money Blackmail Freudian Excuse He Knows Too Much Big Brother Instinct Groin Attack Kill 'em All Badass in a Nice Suit Advertised Extra Wham Shot True Companions Properly Paranoid Stealth Hi/Bye Malevolent Masked Men Line-of-Sight Name Not Quite Dead Asshole Victim Madness Mantra Adaptation Distillation Fun with Acronyms Rape as Drama Manly Tears Too Dumb to Live I Did What I Had to Do The Alleged Car Setting Update Friend to All Children Male Frontal Nudity Recycled IN SPACE! Television Movie Index Stylistic Suck Retirony Film Series Manipulative Bastard The Musical Novelization I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Meaningful Background Event The Lancer Leave the Camera Running N-Word Privileges Due to the Dead Exactly What It Says on the Tin He Who Fights Monsters Central Theme Mugging the Monster Lighter and Softer Superhero An Aesop Whole Plot Reference The Sociopath Moment Killer Framing Device Cassandra Truth Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hollywood Darkness Implacable Man Good Is Not Nice Last-Name Basis Betty and Veronica World of Ham Alpha Bitch Have a Gay Old Time Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Riddle for the Ages Aluminum Christmas Trees Call-Back Four-Temperament Ensemble Distracted by the Sexy The Stinger Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Affably Evil Mundane Made Awesome Chekhov's Gunman Cat Fight Overprotective Dad Wounded Gazelle Gambit NO INDOOR VOICE Crapsack World Laser-Guided Karma British Films The Brute Ass Shove Be Careful What You Wish For Death by Sex Taking You with Me Throwing Your Sword Always Works Beard of Evil Flashback The Dragon Drives Like Crazy Retcon Antagonist Title Together in Death Death by Irony Eldritch Abomination Fingore Eyepatch of Power Ominous Latin Chanting Adaptational Attractiveness Greater-Scope Villain May–December Romance "Shaggy Dog" Story Suddenly SHOUTING! Depraved Bisexual Composite Character Not So Different Small Name, Big Ego Politically Incorrect Villain Dark Is Not Evil Shower Scene Bar Brawl Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Wicked Cultured Captain Ersatz Villain with Good Publicity Beauty Is Never Tarnished Shout-Out Abhorrent Admirer Famous Last Words Love Triangle Undying Loyalty Ironic Echo Immune to Bullets Unusual Euphemism Creative Closing Credits Creepy Child Non-Indicative Name Index of Film Westerns Neck Snap Real Life Mystery and Detective Films Mind Screw Early Installment Weirdness Eagleland Body Horror Slap-Slap-Kiss Big Applesauce Bond One-Liner Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Would Hurt a Child Zombie Stories Chekhov's Gun For Want of a Nail Psycho for Hire No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Nice Guy Race Lift Vitriolic Best Buds Coming-of-Age Story Foil Historical Villain Upgrade Dual Wielding Almost Kiss