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