Tropescilloscope: What You Are in the Dark

A person shows their true colors in private. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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