Tropes in White

White is the lightest shade of Gray Tropes, being a combination of all wavelengths of visible light combining into the one lightest color. In the West, it can symbolize life and good. In Asia, white often symbolizes death. It also symbolizes purity and cleanliness, as the color white betrays nearly any stain, and its pure whiteness is also a symbol of pure cleanliness. In human society, the color white is also a symbolic designation for the lightest superficial human skin complexions and their social meaning -- though these complexions more often look pink or light beige than pure white. Sometimes more insidiously, "white" refers not only to lightness of skin, but to being of Caucasoid descent -- other similarly light-skinned peoples of predominantly non-Caucasoid descent are more likely to be excluded from this definition.

This index includes any tropes that literally or symbolically invoke the color white, including Race Tropes. Remember the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment.

Tropes
Categories:
 * Black Index White Index

Related:
 * Lighting Tropes


 * Blank White Eyes
 * Dreaming of a White Christmas
 * Eternally Pearly-White Teeth
 * Evil Albino
 * Fade to White
 * Fairytale Wedding Dress (white being the standard color for this trope)
 * Fat Sweaty Southerner in A White Suit
 * Gay Groom in A White Tux
 * Gold and White Are Divine
 * Heroic Albino
 * Light Is Good
 * Light Is Not Good
 * Man in White
 * Milky White Eyes aka Prophet Eyes
 * Seeker White Blood Cells
 * White Bunny
 * White Gloves
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * White Magic
 * White Mage
 * White Mask of Doom
 * White Shirt of Death
 * White Stallion
 * White Void Room
 * Woman in White