Tropescilloscope: Woman in White

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

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