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