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