Tropescilloscope: Pretty in Mink

Furs are glamorous, show wealth, and help pretty up a scene. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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