Basic Trope: A high-ranking villain wears a clean white suit to show off his classiness.
- Straight: Kojiro Yamazaki is a well-known mob boss known for his crisp white suits.
- Exaggerated: Kojiro wears nothing but a white suit, even when he sleeps.
- Downplayed: Kojiro's Iconic Item is his clean white blazer.
- Justified:
- It's a setting with Color Coded Patricians, and criminals are known to wear white no matter their standing. As a boss, Kojiro wears a white suit.
- Kojiro wears white to flaunt his gaudy, risky nature; He gives not even a single care when he executes someone in cold blood while wearing the suit.
- Inverted: Kojiro's lowest-ranking underlings wear white suits; he himself wears black.
- Subverted: Kojiro is Good All Along...
- Double Subverted: ...Or maybe not.
- Parodied: Upon his Face–Heel Turn, Kojiro is immediately gifted a white suit.
- Zig-Zagged: Kojiro often wears white suits, but just as often wears black.
- Averted: No white suits.
- Enforced:
- The editors think a white suit will make Kojiro look more intimidating.
- The white suit also acts as how Bright Is Not Good; In some cases, being splattered with blood may also invoke White Shirt of Death.
- Lampshaded: "He might be evil, but dang, that white suit makes an impression!"
- Invoked: Kojiro's Evil Costume Switch is a white suit, because the movies he's seen always have intimidating-looking men wearing them.
- Exploited:
- An assassin trying to take down the mob but who has no idea what Kojiro looks like knows who to aim for in a group setting.
- Kojiro lets the white suit be his personal Iconic Item; thugs that see it in the dark run screaming.
- Defied:
- Kojiro refuses a white suit for his Evil Costume Switch because it makes him look too much like a villain.
- Kojiro refuses a white suit because it tends to get dirty all the time.
- Discussed: "Wow, Kojiro sure looks intimidating in that suit. Just like villains in movies."
- Conversed: "How come so many fictional villains wear white suits?"
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