Tropescilloscope: Woman in White

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

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