Tropescilloscope: Arch-Enemy

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