Tropescilloscope: What You Are in the Dark

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

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Intrepid Reporter Retired Badass Cool Old Guy Central Theme Freeze-Frame Bonus Adaptation Dye-Job Fate Worse than Death Affectionate Parody Twist Ending Would Hit a Girl Lighter and Softer Villain with Good Publicity Offscreen Moment of Awesome Implacable Man Neck Lift Abhorrent Admirer Downer Ending Dwindling Party Leitmotif Despair Event Horizon Redemption Equals Death For Want of a Nail Woman in White Apocalypse How Country Matters An Arm and a Leg Death of a Child Dutch Angle Flipping the Bird Only in It for the Money The Brute Time Skip Black Best Friend I Did What I Had to Do One Steve Limit Military and Warfare Films Monumental Damage Mistaken for Gay Death Seeker Hell Is That Noise Whole Plot Reference Loads and Loads of Characters Accidental Misnaming Captain Obvious Authority Equals Asskicking Police are Useless Empathic Environment Sequel Hook Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Protagonist Title Blood Knight Dirty Coward Brother–Sister Incest Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Maybe Ever After I Have Your Wife For the Evulz Manic Pixie Dream Girl Adult Fear Darker and Edgier As the Good Book Says... Bittersweet Ending Jerk with a Heart of Gold "Awesome McCool" Name Totally Radical Cold-Blooded Torture Bland-Name Product Market-Based Title You Have Failed Me Demoted to Extra Even Evil Has Loved Ones Four-Temperament Ensemble Only Sane Man Hollywood Darkness Truth in Television Eiffel Tower Effect Fun with Acronyms Domestic Abuse Freudian Excuse British Films Never Found the Body I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Bully A God Am I Pretty Little Headshots Author Avatar Cowboy Cop Groin Attack Nice Hat "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Drill Sergeant Nasty Batman Gambit Easily Forgiven Malevolent Masked Men Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Heroic BSoD Catapult Nightmare Frame-Up Ax-Crazy Missing Mom Better to Die than Be Killed Mythology Gag Science Fiction Films Intergenerational Friendship Sole Survivor World of Ham Darkest Hour Betty and Veronica Soft Glass He Knows Too Much War Is Hell Taking the Bullet From Nobody to Nightmare Badass in a Nice Suit Documentary Foreshadowing Works Set in World War II The '60s The Musical Determinator An Axe to Grind Body Horror Black Comedy Rape Older Than They Look Dark Action Girl Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Dumb Blonde My Beloved Smother The Lancer Funny Background Event Femme Fatale Butt-Monkey Reasonable Authority Figure Word of God Chekhov's Skill Abusive Parents Catch-Phrase Re-Cut You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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All There in the Script Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ambiguous Ending Half the Man He Used to Be Cat Scare Genre Shift Mind Screw All Men Are Perverts Canadian Movies Psychological Thriller Small Name, Big Ego Homage Dark Is Not Evil Pragmatic Adaptation Refuge in Audacity Kick the Dog timeperiod Combat Pragmatist Translation Convention Kubrick Stare The Dreaded Genre Savvy Heterosexual Life-Partners Offscreen Teleportation Morality Pet Unusual Euphemism Wrong Genre Savvy Evil Counterpart Dual Wielding Dirty Old Man Amusing Injuries Parental Neglect Parental Incest Red Oni, Blue Oni The Mafia Madness Mantra Fish out of Water Corpsing Martial Arts Movie La Résistance Sequel Escalation Motor Mouth Serial Killer Important Haircut Token Minority Fiery Redhead Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Early-Bird Cameo Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Bait-and-Switch Big Bad Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Pay Evil unto Evil A Date with Rosie Palms Roaring Rampage of Revenge Due to the Dead Eagleland Evil Is Petty Epic Fail No Ending Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Almost Kiss Anachronism Stew Badass Boast Humans Are Bastards Chekhov's Gunman It Can Think Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bald of Evil Sealed Evil in a Can Race Lift Idiot Ball As Long as It Sounds Foreign Department of Redundancy Department Rule of Symbolism The Chessmaster Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Those Wacky Nazis Hair-Trigger Temper Men Are the Expendable Gender Our Vampires Are Different Villain Opening Scene Fantastic Racism Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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As You Know Nothing Is Scarier Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Book-Ends Double Entendre The Cameo Driven to Suicide Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Get Out! Casting Gag Worthy Opponent Card-Carrying Villain One-Word Title Mad Scientist Ironic Echo It's Personal Beta Couple Man on Fire Pre-Asskicking One-Liner B-Movie Distracted by the Sexy No Name Given Narrator Laser-Guided Karma Music Stories Retirony Mighty Whitey Took a Level in Badass Evil Brit Romantic Comedy Actually Pretty Funny Fan Disservice Does Not Like Shoes Berserk Button How We Got Here Ascended Extra Sadistic Choice Dressing as the Enemy Mystery and Detective Films He Who Fights Monsters Stealth Hi/Bye Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Is a Crapshoot Guile Hero Dissonant Serenity Revenge Love at First Sight No Antagonist Ambiguously Gay Calling the Old Man Out Eye Scream Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cool Old Lady Major Injury Underreaction Hollywood Law Costume Porn Hypocritical Humor Call-Back Vampire Fiction Broken Bird Paper-Thin Disguise Film Noir Index Take a Third Option You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Chiaroscuro Cloudcuckoolander Rated M for Manly Product Placement Neck Snap Armor-Piercing Question Took a Level in Jerkass Big Bad Duumvirate Sanity Slippage After the End Moment Killer Bowdlerise Alliterative Name Back from the Dead Greater-Scope Villain Adaptational Villainy Early Installment Weirdness Historical Hero Upgrade Artistic License – Gun Safety Novelization Award-Bait Song Adaptation Expansion Happily Married Humiliation Conga Villain Protagonist Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Adorkable Spiritual Successor The Starscream Awesome, but Impractical Face Death with Dignity Not Even Bothering with the Accent Even Evil Has Standards No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Mood Whiplash Wham Shot Deliberate Values Dissonance Every Car Is a Pinto Anguished Declaration of Love The Faceless All for Nothing Becoming the Mask Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Reveal Italian Films The Un-Reveal Chase Scene Crazy-Prepared Instant Death Bullet Epic Movie Off-into-the-Distance Ending Unreliable Narrator Deadpan Snarker Fainting Rewatch Bonus True Companions "Shaggy Dog" Story Adults Are Useless Vomit Indiscretion Shot Villain Ball The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hypocrite Closed Circle Mundane Made Awesome Rule of Three I Need a Freaking Drink Accidental Murder Australian Movies Not Quite Dead The Smurfette Principle Badass Grandpa Informed Ability Villainous Breakdown Alpha Bitch Actor Allusion The Cavalry Once More, with Clarity! The Oner Pet the Dog Horror Comedy Disguised in Drag Oh, Crap! She Cleans Up Nicely Tranquil Fury Artistic License – Physics Leaning on the Fourth Wall Say My Name Fat Bastard Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Meaningful Echo Japanese Films Tap on the Head Sci-Fi Horror Failed a Spot Check Smug Snake Belligerent Sexual Tension Bi the Way Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Conspicuous CG Face–Heel Turn Chekhov's Gun Really Gets Around Recycled IN SPACE! Pragmatic Villainy Cat Fight Anti-Villain Redshirt Army Male Gaze Death by Adaptation Hidden Depths Asshole Victim Show Within a Show Trailers Always Spoil Ghost Fiction Comically Missing the Point Age Lift Mooks Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The X of Y Final Girl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Foil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Setting Update Big Brother Instinct The Hero Dies Running Gag Artistic License – History Gratuitous English Cool Car Scary Black Man Beware the Nice Ones Riddle for the Ages Extremely Short Timespan Bottomless Magazines I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Good Is Not Nice Bullying a Dragon Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Daylight Horror Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bond Villain Stupidity Unusually Uninteresting Sight Kill It with Fire Curb-Stomp Battle Jump Scare Demonic Possession Kill 'em All Animal Motifs Rasputinian Death Action Prologue Slasher Movie Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The End... Or Is It? Creepy Child Historical Villain Upgrade What the Hell, Hero? 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Is Serious Business Stuff Blowing Up Adapted Out Wicked Cultured Death Glare Camera Abuse Fire-Forged Friends Character Development Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Improbable Weapon User Up to Eleven The Dog Bites Back BFG Dramedy The Atoner In the Back Manchild Slashed Throat Death by Sex Film Series Amoral Attorney Spared by the Adaptation Public Domain Feature Films Crucified Hero Shot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Guns Akimbo Only One Name The Power of Love Anyone Can Die Agony of the Feet Vomit Discretion Shot Ambiguous Disorder Karmic Death Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bloodless Carnage Antagonist Title And Starring Cain and Abel Fantasy Films The Voiceless Peek-a-Boo Corpse 20 Minutes into the Future Dramatic Gun Cock Politically Incorrect Villain Toplessness from the Back Creative Closing Credits Made of Explodium Match Cut Be Careful What You Wish For Overprotective Dad Adaptational Heroism Tagline Race Against the Clock Christmas Movies Index Shipper on Deck Hooker with a Heart of Gold Real Life Writes the Plot Bond One-Liner Grey and Gray Morality Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bury Your Gays Here We Go Again! 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I'm a Humanitarian Affably Evil Horror Films Hero Antagonist Chewing the Scenery Throwing Your Sword Always Works Unresolved Sexual Tension Make It Look Like an Accident Breaking the Fourth Wall Eureka Moment The Ace Pyrrhic Victory Brick Joke Action Girl Evil Is Hammy Enemy Mine Defrosting Ice Queen In Medias Res The Stoner