Tropescilloscope: Woman in White

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

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