Tropescilloscope: Enemy Mine

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

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All for Nothing Ms. Fanservice Dwindling Party Leitmotif Only a Flesh Wound Slashed Throat British Films Last-Name Basis Fanservice Extra Visual Pun Shell-Shocked Veteran Friend to All Children Big Fancy House Skewed Priorities Central Theme I Did What I Had to Do The Big Guy Pretty Little Headshots How We Got Here The Stinger Wretched Hive Scenery Gorn Artistic License – Gun Safety Dressing as the Enemy The Dreaded Music Stories It Can Think Curse Cut Short Roaring Rampage of Revenge Fake Shemp Big-Bad Ensemble Mr. Fanservice Children Are Innocent Ascended Extra Room Full of Crazy Card-Carrying Villain Sinister Minister Russian Films Anachronic Order Scare Chord Politically Incorrect Villain Very Loosely Based on a True Story Henpecked Husband Bond Villain Stupidity The Vamp Australian Movies Red Herring Woman Scorned Cool Old Guy Parental Abandonment Made of Iron Abhorrent Admirer Darkest Hour The Voiceless Gilligan Cut Fatal Family Photo Early-Bird Cameo Ripped from the Headlines Drowning My Sorrows Humiliation Conga Early Installment Weirdness Double-Meaning Title Film Noir Captain Obvious Continuity Nod Small Name, Big Ego Only One Name Half the Man He Used to Be Ironic Echo Comically Missing the Point Psychological Thriller Mama Bear Take That! Reality Is Unrealistic The Smurfette Principle "Shaggy Dog" Story Award-Bait Song Evil Laugh Closed Circle Karmic Death Epic Movie The Mafia Once More, with Clarity! Suspiciously Similar Substitute True Companions Reckless Gun Usage Hypocritical Humor Manchild The End... Or Is It? Same Language Dub The Faceless The Bad Guy Wins Greater-Scope Villain Red Right Hand Redshirt Army Green-Eyed Monster Break the Cutie NO INDOOR VOICE The Smart Guy Exact Words Antagonist Title Gratuitous English Crazy-Prepared Deliberate Values Dissonance Translation Convention The Great Depression Hollywood Darkness Mercy Kill Crapsack World Awesome, but Impractical Sequel Hook Villainous Breakdown Not Quite Dead Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Blatant Lies Shout-Out Together in Death Wicked Cultured Downer Ending Animal Title Index Dies Wide Open Cool Car Animal Motifs Adaptational Badass Time Skip Leave the Camera Running Genre Savvy Hoist by His Own Petard Shower Scene The Un-Reveal Cloudcuckoolander Broken Pedestal Crucified Hero Shot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bowdlerise I Have Your Wife Curb-Stomp Battle Off with His Head! 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She's Got Legs Maybe Ever After You Have Failed Me Smug Snake Rule of Symbolism No OSHA Compliance All There in the Script Hero Antagonist Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Real Life Laughing Mad Death by Irony Psychopathic Manchild Man on Fire Older Than They Look Mood Whiplash Reality Ensues Pyrrhic Victory Reasonable Authority Figure Men Are the Expendable Gender Sassy Black Woman Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Token Minority Wrong Genre Savvy What the Hell, Hero? Conspicuous CG What You Are in the Dark Fate Worse than Death Martial Arts Movie Overprotective Dad Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Disappeared Dad Affectionate Parody Manipulative Bastard Left the Background Music On One-Man Army Hollywood Law Beta Couple Horror Comedy Big Bad Duumvirate Evil Brit Cool Guns Hell Is That Noise Hero of Another Story Body Horror The Oner Toplessness from the Back Peek-a-Boo Corpse Amusing Injuries All There in the Manual Adapted Out Vomit Indiscretion Shot Earn Your Happy Ending The Brute Actually Pretty Funny Kubrick Stare Rousing Speech The Bully Hate Sink Sadistic Choice Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Historical Hero Upgrade Blackmail Bavarian Fire Drill Took a Level in Jerkass Science Fiction Films Dirty Coward Butt-Monkey Framing Device German Films Big Bad Hong Kong Films A.I. Is a Crapshoot Japanese Films Attempted Rape Bloody Hilarious Real Life Writes the Plot Actor Allusion Dutch Angle Knight Templar Make It Look Like an Accident Black Comedy Rape Dark and Troubled Past Face–Heel Turn Call-Forward Honor Before Reason Rewatch Bonus Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Unresolved Sexual Tension Defiant to the End No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Hidden Depths Evil-Detecting Dog Re-Cut Chekhov's Skill Not So Above It All Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Death by Adaptation Taking You with Me Revenge Jerkass Has a Point Bad Boss 20 Minutes into the Future Morality Pet Beware the Nice Ones Nice Hat Extreme Doormat Rule of Cool Camera Abuse Becoming the Mask Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Animated Credits Opening Naked People Are Funny Groin Attack Light Is Not Good Anguished Declaration of Love BFG Sequel Escalation Serious Business Logo Joke Manic Pixie Dream Girl B-Movie Demoted to Extra Madness Mantra Mystery and Detective Films Made of Explodium As Himself He Knows Too Much Stuff Blowing Up Adaptation Distillation Driven to Suicide Improbable Weapon User Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Grievous Bottley Harm Fire-Forged Friends Arch-Enemy folderlabel The Film of the Book The Hero Dies Bolivian Army Ending Bare Your Midriff Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Reveal Would Hurt a Child Accidental Murder Love Triangle Good Is Not Nice The Musical Humans Are Bastards Blood from the Mouth timeperiod Unspoken Plan Guarantee Plot Hole Disproportionate Retribution Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Guy Femme Fatale Anyone Can Die Star-Crossed Lovers Thriller The Lost Lenore Fan Disservice Arranged Marriage "Where Are They Now?" 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For! Emphasis! Cluster F-Bomb Diabolus ex Machina Daddy's Girl I Need a Freaking Drink Your Cheating Heart It's All About Me Aside Glance Car Fu Shipper on Deck As the Good Book Says... Sir Swears-a-Lot Determinator Action Prologue Christmas Movies Index Bait-and-Switch Offscreen Teleportation Affably Evil Breaking the Fourth Wall Beard of Evil Darker and Edgier The Place Not Using the "Z" Word Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Interrupted Suicide Canadian Movies Never My Fault Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Homage Frame-Up The Lancer Noodle Incident Jerkass Let's Get Dangerous! Pragmatic Adaptation Vacation Films Eiffel Tower Effect Big Brother Instinct Bilingual Bonus The Ace Jitter Cam No Antagonist Spiteful Spit Nice Guy Implacable Man Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Loophole Abuse Sealed Evil in a Can For Want of a Nail Important Haircut Eldritch Abomination Due to the Dead May–December Romance Mistaken for Gay Public Domain Feature Films Gold Digger Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Truth in Television Dumb Blonde Final Girl Stylistic Suck Belligerent Sexual Tension Author Avatar A Minor Kidroduction Boom, Headshot! Adaptational Heroism Annoying Younger Sibling Casting Gag Guile Hero You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Department of Redundancy Department Big Applesauce In Medias Res Unusually Uninteresting Sight Heel–Face Turn Unreliable Narrator Only in It for the Money Tranquil Fury The Dragon Captain Ersatz Our Vampires Are Different Meaningful Background Event Freudian Excuse Throwing Your Sword Always Works Knife Nut Pet the Dog Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Meaningful Echo Mighty Whitey Obstructive Bureaucrat Call-Back Demonic Possession An Aesop Video Credits Show Within a Show Evil vs. Evil Despair Event Horizon From Bad to Worse O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Stoner Book-Ends Victoria's Secret Compartment Match Cut Manly Tears Extremely Short Timespan Villain Ball Armor-Piercing Question An Arm and a Leg Loads and Loads of Characters Non-Indicative Name Hope Spot Happily Married Covers Always Lie "Awesome McCool" Name Big "NO!" Five-Man Band Calling the Old Man Out Oh, Crap! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Corrupt Corporate Executive Pre-Asskicking One-Liner All Girls Want Bad Boys Those Two Bad Guys Action Genre Break the Haughty Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Rule of Funny Bottomless Magazines Exactly What It Says on the Tin Red Eyes, Take Warning Mr. Exposition Brainless Beauty Crazy Jealous Guy The Quiet One Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Sacrificial Lion Well-Intentioned Extremist Eye Scream Does Not Like Shoes Canon Foreigner Serial Killer Death Seeker Ambiguous Disorder Insane Troll Logic I'm a Humanitarian Artistic License – History Mugging the Monster Super Strength