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