Tropescilloscope: Enemy Mine

Enemies team up against a common threat. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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