Tropescilloscope: Arch-Enemy

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