Tropescilloscope: Enemy Mine

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

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Is Serious Business Faux Affably Evil Dual Wielding Anyone Can Die The Hero Dies Flashback Those Two Bad Guys Brutal Honesty Not Even Bothering with the Accent Heel Realization Bury Your Gays Expository Hairstyle Change Beauty Is Never Tarnished Catch-Phrase Bait-and-Switch Super Strength Good Is Not Nice Film Series Conspicuous CG Extremely Short Timespan Beware the Nice Ones Re-Cut Ambiguously Gay Happily Married Freeze-Frame Bonus Chase Scene Badass Normal Advertised Extra Police Brutality Only a Flesh Wound Skewed Priorities Only One Name Dark Action Girl Men Are the Expendable Gender Adaptation Name Change Naked People Are Funny Mythology Gag Older Than They Look Serious Business Affectionate Parody Catapult Nightmare Demonic Possession Artistic License – Physics Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Awesome, but Impractical Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Double Entendre The '60s Defiant to the End Author Avatar Cassandra Truth Spanner in the Works Horror Comedy Would Hurt a Child No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Chick Brick Joke Hope Spot Bare Your Midriff Artistic License – History The Power of Love The '70s The Casanova Made of Explodium Informed Ability The Sociopath Riddle for the Ages Authority Equals Asskicking Loads and Loads of Characters Leave the Camera Running Grey and Gray Morality Eagleland Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Toplessness from the Back Villain Song Closed Circle Deal with the Devil Index of Film Westerns Belligerent Sexual Tension Early Installment Weirdness Match Cut Bunny-Ears Lawyer Heel–Face Turn Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Sir Swears-a-Lot Curse Cut Short Male Gaze Exact Words Daylight Horror Accidental Murder And I Must Scream What the Hell, Hero? 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Taking the Bullet Jitter Cam Failed a Spot Check Jerk with a Heart of Gold Humans Are Bastards Didn't Think This Through Paper-Thin Disguise It's All About Me A.I. Is a Crapshoot folderlabel Grievous Bottley Harm No-Sell Blood from the Mouth Retirony Chekhov's Skill Punny Name '80s Hair World of Ham Works Set in World War II Country Matters Retcon Homage Anachronic Order I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Jerkass Has a Point Establishing Character Moment He Knows Too Much Heterosexual Life-Partners Deconstruction Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Cool Old Lady Chewing the Scenery Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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They Really Do Love Each Other Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Jerkass Did Not Get the Girl Killed Mid-Sentence Twist Ending All Just a Dream And the Adventure Continues Badass in a Nice Suit Shirtless Scene Time Skip All for Nothing N-Word Privileges Red Oni, Blue Oni Word of God Diabolus ex Machina Kill It with Fire B-Movie Deadpan Snarker Bloody Hilarious Arch-Enemy Man on Fire Redshirt Army Real Life Writes the Plot Black Comedy Silent Movie Victoria's Secret Compartment Berserk Button Token Minority Dying Moment of Awesome Bloodier and Gorier Amusing Injuries Offscreen Teleportation Book-Ends timeperiod Kick the Son of a Bitch Taking You with Me Needs Wiki Magic Love Foil Narrator Woman in White Mexican Standoff Mooks Line-of-Sight Name Fantastic Racism Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Lost Lenore Pragmatic Villainy Fat Bastard Badass Grandpa Recycled IN SPACE! 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