Tropescilloscope: Enemy Mine

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

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