Tropescilloscope: What You Are in the Dark

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

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