Tropescilloscope: Woman in White

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

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