Tropescilloscope: Woman in White

She's always important if she dresses entirely in white. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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