Tropescilloscope: Enemy Mine

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

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