Tropescilloscope: Woman in White

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

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