Tropescilloscope: Arch-Enemy

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