Tropescilloscope: Arch-Enemy

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