Tropescilloscope: Woman in White

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

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Jerkass Has a Point No Celebrities Were Harmed Your Cheating Heart Punny Name Almost Kiss Anachronism Stew Nice Guy Fatal Family Photo Expy Cowboy Cop Catapult Nightmare Bury Your Gays The Dragon Grievous Bottley Harm Big Brother Instinct Man on Fire A God Am I Did Not Get the Girl As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dogged Nice Guy Earn Your Happy Ending Famous Last Words Made of Iron Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Death by Irony He Knows Too Much No-Sell Only in It for the Money Mistaken for Gay Cat Fight Rich Bitch Not Using the "Z" Word The Remake Adaptation Name Change Sexy Discretion Shot Lampshade Hanging Horror Comedy Offscreen Teleportation The Ghost Beard of Evil Only a Flesh Wound Crucified Hero Shot N-Word Privileges Once More, with Clarity! The Hero True Companions Up to Eleven Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Asshole Victim Credits Gag Rule of Funny As the Good Book Says... Taking You with Me Adult Fear Final Girl The Cavalry Genre Savvy Defrosting Ice Queen Handicapped Badass The Lancer Our Zombies Are Different Extreme Doormat Scenery Gorn Idiot Ball Shoot the Shaggy Dog Spanner in the Works Red Oni, Blue Oni No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Based on a True Story Historical In-Joke Body Horror The Brute Serious Business Heel–Face Turn Fourth Date Marriage Tagline Soft Glass Anachronic Order Neck Lift Slasher Smile Stepford Smiler Obfuscating Stupidity Freudian Excuse Chekhov's Skill Parental Neglect "The Reason You Suck" Speech Big Applesauce In Name Only Documentary Gory Discretion Shot Camera Abuse Would Hurt a Child Soundtrack Dissonance An Aesop Badass Longcoat La Résistance Thriller Spiritual Successor Shown Their Work The Load Scary Black Man Coming-of-Age Story The End... Or Is It? The X of Y Historical-Domain Character Irony Expository Hairstyle Change Fate Worse than Death Would Hit a Girl Black Comedy A Date with Rosie Palms There Is No Kill Like Overkill What You Are in the Dark Mighty Whitey Guile Hero Important Haircut It's All About Me Leitmotif Not So Different Psycho for Hire Beta Couple Catch-Phrase Logo Joke Obviously Evil Needs Wiki Magic Love Parental Substitute Canadian Movies All There in the Manual Awesome, but Impractical Dirty Cop Comically Missing the Point Darkest Hour Spared by the Adaptation Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Rasputinian Death Older Than They Look Manipulative Bastard Hell Is That Noise Wrong Genre Savvy Villain Protagonist Shirtless Scene Black Best Friend Artistic License – Military Large Ham Chekhov's Gun Shout-Out Affectionate Parody You Killed My Father Italian Films Ax-Crazy Maybe Ever After Friend to All Children All Girls Want Bad Boys Break the Cutie Mood Whiplash One-Man Army Dramatic Gun Cock In Medias Res Kill 'em All Madness Mantra What the Hell, Hero? 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Big-Bad Ensemble Show Within a Show After the End Grey and Gray Morality Corpsing Call-Forward O.O.C. Is Serious Business Have a Gay Old Time Pretty in Mink The Mafia The Chick I'm a Humanitarian Rule of Three Sports Stories Epic Movie Psychological Thriller You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Early Installment Weirdness Bi the Way Translation Convention Male Gaze Straight Gay Woman in White Badass Bookworm Retired Badass Drill Sergeant Nasty Celebrity Paradox Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hero of Another Story Taking the Bullet Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Eiffel Tower Effect folderlabel Genre Throwback In the Back Faux Affably Evil The Ditz Shut Up, Hannibal! Foil As You Know The '60s Wicked Cultured Every Car Is a Pinto Loads and Loads of Characters Pay Evil unto Evil The Dog Bites Back The Great Depression The Musical Random Events Plot The Stoner Fun with Acronyms Hypocrite German Films Does This Remind You of Anything? Driven to Suicide Protagonist Title Light Is Not Good Adults Are Useless "Well Done, Son!" Guy Captain Obvious Sequel Escalation Hooker with a Heart of Gold No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Happily Married Manic Pixie Dream Girl Calling the Old Man Out The Voiceless Fire-Forged Friends Same Language Dub Combat Pragmatist As Himself Line-of-Sight Name Enemy Mine Five-Man Band Batman Gambit Alpha Bitch Neck Snap Public Domain Feature Films Running Gag Award-Bait Song Beware the Nice Ones All Men Are Perverts The '80s Match Cut A.I. Is a Crapshoot Badass Normal Last-Name Basis The Alcoholic Red Eyes, Take Warning No Name Given One-Word Title Evil vs. Evil Instant Death Bullet Disappeared Dad Well-Intentioned Extremist Big Bad Duumvirate Bar Brawl This Is Gonna Suck Blood from the Mouth Index of Film Westerns Annoying Younger Sibling Better to Die than Be Killed Death Seeker Ghost Fiction Mad Scientist Flashback Chewing the Scenery Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Skewed Priorities Big "NO!" May–December Romance Evil Sounds Deep Police are Useless Adapted Out Karmic Death Revenge Film Series Laser-Guided Karma Contrived Coincidence Mythology Gag Deadpan Snarker Fatal Flaw Leave the Camera Running The Atoner The Ace Reality Is Unrealistic Blood Knight 20 Minutes into the Future Berserk Button Curse Cut Short Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Tranquil Fury Death of a Child Evil Is Petty Wham Shot Historical Villain Upgrade Slasher Movie Bullying a Dragon Covers Always Lie Framing Device How We Got Here Cool Old Guy Apocalypse How Armor-Piercing Question Animal Motifs Paper-Thin Disguise Names to Run Away from Really Fast Gone Horribly Right Unspoken Plan Guarantee Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Those Two Guys Unreliable Narrator Rape as Drama Woman Scorned Informed Ability Tempting Fate Improvised Weapon Never My Fault Alas, Poor Villain No Ending Evil Plan Red Right Hand Fantasy Films Left the Background Music On Fanservice Zombie Stories Betty and Veronica For Want of a Nail Easily Forgiven Mystery and Detective Films Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Biopic Race Lift Closed Circle Bald of Evil Dirty Old Man From Nobody to Nightmare A Father to His Men Cool Old Lady Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Disguised in Drag Bilingual Bonus Cain and Abel Deliberate Values Dissonance Narrator Self-Deprecation What Happened to the Mouse? Male Frontal Nudity Tap on the Head Eyepatch of Power It Will Never Catch On Sci-Fi Horror Market-Based Title Alliterative Name Get Out! Victoria's Secret Compartment Defiant to the End Death by Sex The '90s Bloodier and Gorier Chekhov's Gunman Japanese Films Wham Line Badass Grandpa Christmas Movies Index Setting Update Hollywood Law Cat Scare Death Glare Cool Car Malevolent Masked Men Properly Paranoid timeperiod Funny Background Event Sole Survivor Humiliation Conga Made of Explodium Imagine Spot Funny Foreigner Those Wacky Nazis Not What It Looks Like Horror Films Deconstruction Hidden Depths Not Quite Dead French Films All Just a Dream Fantastic Racism Undying Loyalty Downer Ending Corrupt Corporate Executive Deliberately Monochrome Silent Movie The Casanova Kids Are Cruel Punch-Clock Villain Face Death with Dignity Disney Death Authority Equals Asskicking Affably Evil Take That! Gainax Ending Dramedy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sassy Black Woman Conspicuous CG Bond One-Liner Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Demoted to Extra Bare Your Midriff Brainless Beauty Ominous Latin Chanting Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Bully Continuity Nod Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Real Life Writes the Plot Arch-Enemy Breaking the Fourth Wall Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ungrateful Bastard Recycled IN SPACE! 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Kick the Dog Eldritch Abomination Hair-Trigger Temper Drugs Are Bad Bring My Brown Pants Mexican Standoff Green-Eyed Monster Martial Arts Movie Never Found the Body Heroes Want Redheads Genre Shift Take a Third Option Beauty Is Never Tarnished Action Prologue Meaningful Background Event Age Lift Dark Reprise BFG Science Fiction Films Video Credits Cluster F-Bomb The Mole It's Personal Product Placement Actually Pretty Funny Re-Cut Reckless Gun Usage Ass Shove Stealth Pun Time Skip Faking the Dead Villain Song Dark and Troubled Past Even Evil Has Standards The Lost Lenore Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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For! Emphasis! Motor Mouth Redemption Equals Death Mugging the Monster Captain Ersatz Fake Shemp Even Evil Has Loved Ones Romantic False Lead Military and Warfare Films Black Comedy Rape Everyone Has Standards Determinator Book-Ends Antagonist Title Crapsack World Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Jump Scare Ironic Echo Adaptational Villainy Action Genre Hypocritical Humor Rousing Speech Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Rule of Symbolism Film Noir The Un-Reveal Badass Boast Abusive Parents I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Leaning on the Fourth Wall Obstructive Bureaucrat Took a Level in Jerkass Put on a Bus Implacable Man Adaptation Expansion Dwindling Party Creepy Child Heroic Sacrifice Dies Wide Open Serial Killer And the Adventure Continues Stuff Blowing Up Our Vampires Are Different Failed a Spot Check Roaring Rampage of Revenge Fainting Naïve Newcomer Animated Credits Opening Stealth Hi/Bye Monumental Damage Danny Peary Cult Movies List Vitriolic Best Buds Small Name, Big Ego Training Montage Auto Erotica Noodle Incident Villainous Breakdown Bloodless Carnage Pet the Dog The Alleged Car Whole Plot Reference Attempted Rape The Sociopath Married to the Job Intrepid Reporter Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Flipping the Bird Posthumous Character Sanity Slippage Gorn Artistic License – Geography Oh, Crap! Badass in a Nice Suit Accidental Misnaming The Dreaded Anyone Can Die War Is Hell Action Survivor Sir Swears-a-Lot Together in Death Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cool Shades The Stoic Bottomless Magazines Accidental Murder Not So Above It All Brutal Honesty Wretched Hive Love Triangle Fan Disservice Facial Horror Card-Carrying Villain Truth in Television Chase Scene Parental Abandonment Morality Pet Eureka Moment Anti-Hero Artistic License – Biology Unusual Euphemism Sacrificial Lion Manly Tears Superhero Token Minority Author Avatar Honor Before Reason Shower Scene Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Rule of Cool Anguished Declaration of Love Cold-Blooded Torture Jerkass Smug Snake Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Film of the Book Aluminum Christmas Trees Works Set in World War II Let's Get Dangerous! Foreshadowing Pretty Little Headshots