Tropescilloscope: Cain and Abel

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

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