Woman in White - TV Tropes. For the Wilkie Collins novel and related works, see The Woman in White. Mystery beckons. One day, back in 1. I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry. And as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in. And on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on.
She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all. But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I hadn't thought of that girl.
Not just a blouse or skirt, but a completely white ensemble. We're talking shoes, dress, scarf, purse, hat, and sometimes even hair.
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And most importantly: they've got style. If it's just fashion, then it implies a fastidious neatness, and an ability to . If symbolism is to be had, it can range from purity to death. Teen girls in white run a risk of becoming The Ophelia, so not- of- this- world that their minds suffer for it. And while this trope is almost Always Female, lately, there are more and more male characters that fit in as well. Compare to Lady in Red and Little Dead Riding Hood, where the age difference produces a very different trope.
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If her imagery definitely tilts toward the macabre, she might leave behind Footprints of Muck. See also Virgin in a White Dress. When women began marching for temperance in the United States, the symbolic purity of white clothing refuted accusations that women marching in the streets were women of the streets. The tradition continued into the women's suffrage movement when women marched for votes. White Shirt of Death is also possible. The Bedsheet Ghost is related.
Ghosts are often portrayed as silent women in white, known as Grey Ladies. She may also become a Stringy- Haired Ghost Girl.
Compare/Contrast Man in White, Evil Albino, and the more explicit about significance Gold and White Are Divine. She's got the white hair, too.
It's actually a very pale lavender but it's close enough. She takes the darker forms of this trope. Within the setting, she's an infamous hacker, though she is portrayed as one of the protagonists as, unlike most of CC Corp, she actually knows and cares what's going in in The World (the game the series takes place in) and takes it seriously and works to find a true solution rather then just shutting the game down.
Her name is also pulled from the Queen of Darkness in the Epic poem The World is based on. When she and her friends became Time Travelers stuck in the Amakusa area before the Shimabara rebellion, she was wearing a white Pimped- Out Dress instead of their school uniforms, so said white gown becomes her trademark clothing. She's a Cute Ghost Girl, and she was wearing a white dress when she drowned and died. She even has white- blonde hair! Although the reason why she does so is because her Ax- Crazy fiancee insists. Y'know, so the blood (from his victims) will show up better.
She is also noted to be the Token Good Teammate of all the shinigami. After The Reveal (that she's an angel), her wardrobe shifts to white and remains so in all her subsequent appearances. As a result, the female Arrancar fall into this trope. The white uniforms symbolise evil and, therefore, death, as a somewhat ironic contrast to the . She wears it until she's fully released and then Aizen's definitive defeat.
Later Urahara trolls her into putting on a very stripperiffic outfit, which is also white save for a blue collar. Rukia herself takes on this appearance in Bankai, as it's an externalization of her spirit, much like Ichigo's Badass Longcoat.
In Candy Candy, the female school uniform in the Boarding School Candy, her friends and the Alpha Bitch attend is white and looks a lot like a Sailor Fuku. Unless in certain days, where the girls are required to wear black dresses instead.
Until she wears black. Then she wears white again. She was murdered by Yoko Asanuma, her envious. Body Double, who also briefly wears white while impersonating Akiko and making everyone believe she was still alive. In several openings and endings of the anime, however, Ran is seen wearing white dresses and playing the strope straight. To represent her unearthly beauty and pure, childish personality. Combined with her pale skin, black hair, and semi- creepiness/fierce determination to make her peers happy, she manages to look like Sadako.
Her elementary school uniform is also a white dress. However, most fans refer her as the . As the more mature, down- to- earth co- protagonist, she doesn't really fit the typical Woman in White persona, but the white dress does bring out her dark complexion. Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion invokes the trope by wearing a white plug suit.
Of course, to those who know him it's a double- entendre of sorts, with the death- and- mourning aspects of white evoking his deadliness as a swordsman. Cure. White, Cure.
Egret, and Cure Rhythm, all three of them being Girly Girls to Tomboys. The Heartcatch Pretty Cures wear white costumes when they activate Super Silhouette. Of course, she's based on a character from a ballet which shares the name of the episode—. Oriko Mikuni of Puella Magi Oriko Magica, at least in her Magical Girl outfit.
She transforms into Sailor Chibi- Chibi to assist Sailor Moon in the present to prevent her bleak future from occurring. Sailor Cosmos is actually Sailor Moon in the future. Her costume is all white, including her hair. Of course, this isn't the case in the anime.
The prequel Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas has Sasha aka the Athena from the 1. Saori Kido aka the Athena of the modern times. The Asgard Saga of the anime adds Princess Freya, while her sister Princess Hilda goes back and forth between True Blue Femininity or woman in black depending on whether she's Brainwashed and Crazy or not. GX has both male and female members. Her assistant Rei dresses in a white suit jacket to mimic her boss. Civilian clothes are a different matter (or at least used to be). Other White Queens also fit the trope.
Given her badassitude, two possibilities for who she is spring to Black Canary's mind: Cassandra Cain or Lady Shiva. Oh, Crap!. She turns out to be the sister of the Twelve Brothers in Silk, who Black Canary fought years ago, and in a bit of Fridge Brilliance, wears white in mourning for her brothers, who she killed to uphold their father's honor after their defeat. She owned a mod clothing boutique in these stories, so it was probably a fashion statement. Originally, she had a red costume like Billy, while Freddy's was mostly blue. She laments that everyone dubbed her . When she actually gets her restaurant, however, she wears green in reference to her and Naveen's froggy adventure.
As noted in the literature section, however, white is a bit impractical for things like killing the Witch- King and generally kicking ass on the battlefield, so she's not always in white. All of the other human characters dress in black inside the Matrix, but Switch doesn't play any particularly important role (other than her death). I do know her favorite color, though, it's white. She wears white all the time. It fits nicely with her role as the the formal leader of the Rebel Alliance. Ugetsu: Part of Lady Wakasa's beautiful but unsettling look is the all- white dress and hat she's wearing when she first meets Genjuro. She turns out to have been Dead All Along.
Since this movie is a parody of the Western, the white dress worn by Crawford signifying her as good and the black dress worn by her enemy is an ironic reversal, since by usual Western codes Vienna is a . He's in a bad slump, but in his last at- bat, he turns around and glimpses her standing in the brilliant afternoon light. Naturally (ha), he smacks a home run into the scoreboard clock and the papers the next day read The Knight and the Lady in White. She also dies wearing a white dress. The very scene she reveals herself as the killer and confronts Sidney. Lilli appears at a party in pure white gown in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, which is visually striking as no one else does this. Plot- wise, it also spurs memories of her mother (it was her gown once), which makes her father nostalgic and sends her stepmother straight into labor.
You can see it in her Princess Wiki page. And thanks to being played by Ksenia Solo, she has the pale skin and platinum- blonde hair as well. Possibly a Call Back to Man in White John Hammond from the first film. The white robes also blend with the white scrubs she has her followers wear when they meet with her. She plays a large role in saving Brian Wilson from his abusive therapist. The symbolism is really heightened at the end,, when she's standing there in a white coat, representing Bond's chance to leave MI6 and live a happy, peaceful life. She turns out to be some kind of local deity trying to protect the village against the stranger, who might be The Devil himself, to no avail.
In Batman, Vicki Vale wears an all- white ensemble during the final showdown between Batman and The Joker, as part of the overall Gothic style of the scene. This is the spirit of a young lady killed in the 1. They do not always have the protagonist's best interest in mind.
Just about every Spanish- speaking country has mythology related to La Llorona, even Spain. Generally speaking, though, the story is usually the same: she was a beautiful young mistress who tried to permanently win the heart of the man she loved by drowning her own children because she knew he wasn't all that fond of kids. It wasn't until he called her out on it that she realized how horrifying her actions were and promptly drowned herself in an effort to find her children. Naturally, she's a ghost said to haunt riversides calling for her children. She is the ghost of a bride that died (mostly killed) before entering the church to marry, and now, searches for her groom near the place she died, usually in a dark, creepy forest.
If she finds a man she thinks is like her groom, she takes him to the world of dead with her.. Unless said man runs like hell, which they promptly do.