Tropescilloscope: Arch-Enemy

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