Tropescilloscope: Arch-Enemy

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