History Main / BlackIndexWhiteIndex

* GrayscaleOfEvil: Color scheme with no color (or barely any) denotes villainy.

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[-''Grid No. II'', Gordon Walters (1983)-]]]

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Similar to the RuleOfIndex caveat, just because "black" and "white" appear together in the name of the trope does not mean they fit this index. For tropes relating to the black and white colors individually, see TropesInBlack and TropesInWhite, respectively. Nevertheless, compare GrayTropes, GoodAndEvilForYourConvenience, GoodColorsEvilColors. Not to be confused with the separate BlackIndex and WhiteIndex, which (though there ''is'' overlap) are about people of... color.

Similar to the RuleOfIndex caveat, just because "black" and "white" appear together in the name of the trope does not mean they fit this index. Nevertheless, compare GrayTropes, GoodAndEvilForYourConvenience, GoodColorsEvilColors. Not to be confused with the separate BlackIndex and WhiteIndex, which (though there ''is'' overlap) are about people of... color.

* SkunkStripe: Dark hair with one or more streaks of white/silver running through it.

* SaltAndPepper: Two characters, one white and another black, with hilariously different personalities.

Compare GrayTropes, GoodAndEvilForYourConvenience, GoodColorsEvilColors. Not to be confused with the separate BlackIndex and WhiteIndex, which (though there ''is'' overlap) are about people of... color.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: One side of a conflict is utterly, completely good. The other is raw, pure '''evil.'''

%% * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Someone with white hair just so happens to be completely evil.

* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: A black woman and a white man being together means they have to experience criticism.

* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: A black man being with a white woman is considered taboo or humorous, or has to suffer criticism.
* WhiteDudeBlackDude: Joking about differences between white people and black people.

Compare GrayTropes, GoodAndEvilForYourConvenience, GoodColorsEvilColors. Not to be confused with the separate BlackIndex and WhiteIndex, which are about people of... color.

Compare GrayTropes, GoodAndEvilForYourConvenience, GoodColorsEvilColors. Not to be confused with the separate Black Index and White Index, which is about people of... color.

Compare GrayTropes, GoodAndEvilForYourConvenience, GoodColorsEvilColors.

* GrayscaleOfEvil: Colour scheme with no colour (or barely any) denotes villainy.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Someone with white hair just so happens to be completely evil.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: A beautiful character with [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs hair as black as ebony and skin as white as snow]].

Black and white, respectively, the darkest and lightest values in visible light. While not being true colors, they contrast better than any pairs of actual contrasting colors, be it [[RedGreenContrast red and green]], [[OrangeBlueContrast blue and orange]], or [[YellowPurpleContrast yellow and purple]] (though the latter two ''are'' considered the most similar to the black/white contrast in terms of color space). Consequently, black contrasted against white has a long history in symbolism. How this symbolism generally works varies from culture to culture-- western societies generally view black as malevolent and white as benevolent, while in East Asia white typically has a more somber connotation. Regardless, the contrast between the two values is a universal source of symbolism, and as such is rife for trope fodder in media.

Black and white, respectively, the darkest and lightest values in visible light. While not being true colors, they contrast better than any pairs of actual contrasting colors, be it [[RedGreenContrast red and green]], [[BlueOrangeContrast blue and orange]], or [[YellowPurpleContrast yellow and purple]] (though the latter two ''are'' considered the most similar to the black/white contrast in terms of color space). Consequently, black contrasted against white has a long history in symbolism. How this symbolism generally works varies from culture to culture-- western societies generally view black as malevolent and white as benevolent, while in East Asia white typically has a more somber connotation. Regardless, the contrast between the two values is a universal source of symbolism, and as such is rife for trope fodder in media.

Black and white, respectively, the darkest and lightest values in visible light. While not being true colors, they contrast better than any pairs of actual contrasting colors, be it [[RedAndGreenContrast red and green]], [[BlueAndOrangeContrast blue and orange]], or [[YellowAndPurpleContrast yellow and purple]] (though the latter two ''are'' considered the most similar to the black/white contrast in terms of color space). Consequently, black contrasted against white has a long history in symbolism. How this symbolism generally works varies from culture to culture-- western societies generally view black as malevolent and white as benevolent, while in East Asia white typically has a more somber connotation. Regardless, the contrast between the two values is a universal source of symbolism, and as such is rife for trope fodder in media.

Black and white are the darkest "color" and the lightest "color" respectively. As such, they contrast better than any other two colors. Black contrasted against white has a long history in symbolism.