Tropescilloscope: Red Oni, Blue Oni

Two characters, one passionate, headstrong and wild (red), and the other level-headed, collected and rational (blue), are associated with each other for contrast. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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