Tropescilloscope: Cain and Abel

Sibling rivalry turns into bitter hatred with murderous intent. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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