Tropescilloscope: Cain and Abel

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

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