Tropescilloscope: Enemy Mine

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

More Tropes Get Out! Plot Hole Darker and Edgier Well-Intentioned Extremist Slasher Movie Artistic License – Physics Australian Movies Adaptational Badass I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Auto Erotica Adaptation Expansion Damsel in Distress Back from the Dead A Date with Rosie Palms Dark Reprise Psychological Thriller Silence Is Golden Camp Gay Soundtrack Dissonance Fake Shemp A Father to His Men Refuge in Audacity British Films Age Lift Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Heterosexual Life-Partners Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Big Bad Duumvirate Decoy Protagonist Unusual Euphemism Black Comedy Rape Antagonist Title Awesome, but Impractical Lock and Load Montage Break the Cutie Big Eater Everyone Has Standards More Dakka Not What It Looks Like Stealth Hi/Bye Badass Boast Canadian Movies Slasher Smile Shirtless Scene Distracted by the Sexy Sequel Hook Does Not Like Shoes Amusing Injuries The Mole Martial Arts Movie Disney Death Sinister Minister Brutal Honesty Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun As Himself Jerkass Dissonant Serenity Fish out of Water Fun with Acronyms Sequel Escalation Double Entendre Bald of Evil The Brute Pragmatic Villainy Crazy-Prepared Cool Car Department of Redundancy Department Canon Foreigner Mind Screw Composite Character Smoking Is Cool Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Pimped-Out Dress Disguised in Drag Historical-Domain Character Fate Worse than Death Vomit Discretion Shot Credits Gag Abhorrent Admirer Match Cut BFG Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dual Wielding Video Credits Beauty Is Never Tarnished As You Know Title Drop Undying Loyalty Bad Boss Woman in White Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Unreliable Narrator Gorn One-Word Title Combat Pragmatist Star-Crossed Lovers Training Montage Ominous Latin Chanting Evil Plan Ass Shove Action Prologue Curse Cut Short Henpecked Husband Cat Fight Dirty Coward Protagonist Title The Ace Bury Your Gays Contrived Coincidence Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Broken Pedestal Body Horror Made of Explodium Pretty Little Headshots Overprotective Dad The Dreaded Pre-Mortem One-Liner Anguished Declaration of Love Author Appeal Horror Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Stoner Thriller Rule of Three Jerk with a Heart of Gold Due to the Dead Eureka Moment Sassy Black Woman Spiteful Spit Animated Credits Opening Dark Action Girl Evil Counterpart Actually Pretty Funny B-Movie Bittersweet Ending Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Nothing Is Scarier Historical In-Joke Rated M for Manly The Ghost Trailers Always Spoil Reality Ensues Villain Protagonist Real Life Writes the Plot Big Brother Instinct Costume Porn Those Two Guys Implacable Man Reality Has No Subtitles "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Chekhov's Gunman Madness Mantra Never My Fault Heroic Sacrifice Broken Bird A.I. Is a Crapshoot Shout-Out Call-Forward Those Two Bad Guys Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Male Frontal Nudity Pyrrhic Victory Neck Lift Properly Paranoid Green-Eyed Monster Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Military and Warfare Films Depraved Bisexual Motor Mouth Brainless Beauty Good Is Not Nice Heroic BSoD Spiritual Successor Artistic License – Geography Slap-Slap-Kiss Here We Go Again! No Name Given Bullying a Dragon '80s Hair Adaptation Dye-Job My Greatest Failure "Well Done, Son!" 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They Really Do Love Each Other Never Trust a Trailer Not Using the "Z" Word Attempted Rape Missing Mom Card-Carrying Villain Obstructive Bureaucrat Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Alleged Car Yandere Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Chewing the Scenery Cowboy Cop Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Determinator Villain Opening Scene Villain with Good Publicity Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dramatic Irony Romantic False Lead Fan Disservice Stylistic Suck The Musical Male Gaze Line-of-Sight Name Toplessness from the Back Ship Tease Moment Killer Evil Brit Fatal Family Photo "Awesome McCool" Name Jump Scare Insistent Terminology Dark and Troubled Past Establishing Character Moment Knife Nut Anachronism Stew Extreme Doormat Victoria's Secret Compartment Fanservice Extra Parental Neglect Affably Evil Advertised Extra Beta Couple Earn Your Happy Ending For the Evulz Only Sane Man Not So Different Determinator aka: The Determinator Stock Footage Oh, Crap! 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Dumb Blonde Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Quiet One My God, What Have I Done? 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The Chick Humiliation Conga Flashback Only in It for the Money Belligerent Sexual Tension Russian Films Sealed Evil in a Can Red Oni, Blue Oni Expy Retcon Corpsing Eiffel Tower Effect Really Gets Around The Hero Dies Manchild Large Ham The Oner Offscreen Teleportation Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Continuity Nod Closed Circle Not So Stoic Revenge Call-Back Laughing Mad Meet Cute Betty and Veronica How We Got Here Gone Horribly Right Retired Badass Big "NO!" Wham Line Overly Long Gag It's All About Me Adaptation Name Change Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Television Movie Index Love Triangle Defrosting Ice Queen Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Cool Old Guy Did Not Get the Girl The Dog Bites Back Double-Meaning Title Running Gag Aside Glance Mexican Standoff The Film of the Book Suspiciously Similar Substitute Big Applesauce Villainous Breakdown Only One Name Developing Doomed Characters Love at First Sight Redshirt Army Becoming the Mask Men Are the Expendable Gender No Ending I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Jerkass Has a Point Dies Wide Open Drugs Are Bad Film Noir Index Eyepatch of Power Our Vampires Are Different Black Dude Dies First Irony Blatant Lies Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Mafia The '90s Bring My Brown Pants Cat Scare Rape as Drama Manly Tears Better to Die than Be Killed Say My Name Villain Song A Minor Kidroduction The Great Depression Hollywood Law Leitmotif Black Best Friend Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dirty Cop Stepford Smiler The Big Guy Interrupted Suicide Police are Useless Shell-Shocked Veteran No-Holds-Barred Beatdown timeperiod World of Ham Rule of Funny Exactly What It Says on the Tin Tranquil Fury Riddle for the Ages Actor Allusion NO INDOOR VOICE Scenery Porn Expository Hairstyle Change The Starscream Hollywood Darkness Deadpan Snarker Adaptational Heroism Bavarian Fire Drill The Remake Dirty Old Man Pay Evil unto Evil Made of Iron Gender Flip Hoist by His Own Petard Dressing as the Enemy Tagline Punny Name Disappeared Dad True Companions War Is Hell Documentary Psychopathic Manchild Loophole Abuse He Knows Too Much Naked People Are Funny Kill 'em All Meaningful Name Fingore Worthy Opponent Once More, with Clarity! Bad "Bad Acting" Bland-Name Product Evil vs. Evil Mr. Exposition Tap on the Head Last-Name Basis Evil Is Hammy Creative Closing Credits Small Name, Big Ego Show Within a Show Sanity Slippage You Killed My Father Author Avatar Aluminum Christmas Trees Cain and Abel You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Karmic Death Animal Title Index Word of God Visual Pun Shown Their Work Mercy Kill Sole Survivor Ambiguous Disorder Those Wacky Nazis Abusive Parents Playing Gertrude Berserk Button Epic Fail It Will Never Catch On Heroes Want Redheads Drives Like Crazy Half the Man He Used to Be Narrator Annoying Younger Sibling Country Matters Calling the Old Man Out Superhero Genre Throwback Agony of the Feet Re-Cut Foreshadowing Same Language Dub Non-Indicative Name Ax-Crazy Apocalypse How Kids Are Cruel Major Injury Underreaction Creator Cameo I Did What I Had to Do Insane Troll Logic Ironic Echo Mood Whiplash The Voiceless Drowning My Sorrows Rule of Symbolism Artistic License – History Blackmail Scenery Gorn Not Quite Dead You Have Failed Me Only a Flesh Wound Covers Always Lie Heel Realization In Medias Res The Hero Badass Grandpa Evil Is Petty Precision F-Strike She's Got Legs Grievous Bottley Harm Dull Surprise Self-Deprecation Failed a Spot Check In Name Only Loads and Loads of Characters Face–Heel Turn No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Left the Background Music On Ripped from the Headlines Index of Film Westerns Rule of Cool Shower Scene Your Cheating Heart Flipping the Bird Wicked Cultured Catch-Phrase Peek-a-Boo Corpse French Films And Starring The Reveal Karma Houdini Defiant to the End Novelization Dropped a Bridge on Him Too Dumb to Live Nice Guy Nice Hat Kill It with Fire Vomit Indiscretion Shot Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Coming-of-Age Story Death of a Child Fainting Hero Antagonist Italian Films Tempting Fate Book-Ends Reality Is Unrealistic No OSHA Compliance Femme Fatale Suspiciously Specific Denial Spared by the Adaptation Hypocrite Off-into-the-Distance Ending Fantastic Racism Fantasy Films Batman Gambit Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cassandra Truth Mythology Gag Car Fu Take That! German Films Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Neck Snap The Chessmaster The Dragon Hair-Trigger Temper Blood from the Mouth Vacation Films Ambiguously Gay Unresolved Sexual Tension Anti-Hero Slashed Throat Improbable Weapon User Adorkable Hong Kong Films Fire-Forged Friends Jitter Cam Bi the Way Japanese Films Deal with the Devil Taking You with Me Cool Shades Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dramedy Disney Villain Death After the End Dramatic Gun Cock Monumental Damage Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Death Seeker Product Placement Does This Remind You of Anything? Alas, Poor Villain Based on a True Story Mooks Crucified Hero Shot Downer Ending Alpha Bitch Our Zombies Are Different Intrepid Reporter Big-Bad Ensemble The '60s Eldritch Abomination Ms. Fanservice The Smart Guy Crazy Jealous Guy Chekhov's Skill Homage Mystery and Detective Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom Spanner in the Works "Shaggy Dog" Story Straight Gay Empathic Environment Ascended Extra Stuff Blowing Up Children Are Innocent Conspicuous CG Outrun the Fireball Stealth Pun Bloody Hilarious Daylight Horror Arc Words Casting Gag