Tropescilloscope: Arch-Enemy

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