Tropescilloscope: Heterosexual Life-Partners

Very close same-sex friends. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Fire-Forged Friends Bullying a Dragon Mooks A Date with Rosie Palms The Mole Ironic Echo Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil One-Man Army Posthumous Character Dark Is Not Evil "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Oner More Dakka Fan Disservice Very Loosely Based on a True Story Badass Boast Fish out of Water Adaptational Badass Kill It with Fire Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The '60s Bury Your Gays Ship Tease Accidental Murder Early-Bird Cameo Guile Hero Kids Are Cruel Soundtrack Dissonance Bad "Bad Acting" Danny Peary Cult Movies List Jitter Cam There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Smart Guy Cat Scare Reality Has No Subtitles Kubrick Stare The Sociopath Call-Back Aluminum Christmas Trees Sequel Hook Disney Villain Death Playing Gertrude Death Seeker Product Placement The Starscream Epic Fail Beard of Evil Morality Pet Reality Ensues Defiant to the End Noodle Incident Not So Above It All Intergenerational Friendship Immune to Bullets folderlabel Bloodless Carnage Dies Wide Open Every Car Is a Pinto Match Cut Scenery Porn Advertised Extra Jerkass Has a Point Mundane Made Awesome Re-Cut Anguished Declaration of Love Not Quite Dead Off with His Head! Index of Film Westerns Depraved Bisexual Evil Cannot Comprehend Good British Films The Un-Reveal Irony Leitmotif Age Lift Camp Gay Obfuscating Stupidity Mythology Gag Knife Nut No Ending Badass Longcoat Mood Whiplash Shower Scene Motor Mouth Spanner in the Works Evil Sounds Deep The Power of Love Broken Pedestal Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dressing as the Enemy What Happened to the Mouse? Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Papa Wolf Air-Vent Passageway Agony of the Feet Even Evil Has Loved Ones Genre Savvy Ascended Extra Film Series Crazy-Prepared Cruel and Unusual Death Zombie Stories The Lost Lenore Body Horror The Cameo Villain Song Friend to All Children Totally Radical Sequel Escalation Male Frontal Nudity In the Back For the Evulz Armor-Piercing Question Improbable Aiming Skills The Big Guy Revenge Better to Die than Be Killed Pretty in Mink And Starring "Awesome McCool" Name Crazy Jealous Guy Freeze-Frame Bonus Anyone Can Die Funny Foreigner Evil Counterpart Back from the Dead Shirtless Scene Logo Joke Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality She Cleans Up Nicely Same Language Dub Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Daddy's Girl Bring My Brown Pants Retcon Neck Lift War Is Hell Deal with the Devil Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sassy Black Woman Anachronic Order You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Red Herring It's Personal Big Bad Duumvirate Hidden Depths Does Not Like Shoes Fate Worse than Death MacGuffin Heroic BSoD The X of Y Greater-Scope Villain Monumental Damage Earn Your Happy Ending Cool Guns Parental Neglect Shut Up, Hannibal! Offscreen Teleportation Celebrity Paradox Rule of Symbolism Coming-of-Age Story Facial Horror Manly Tears Slasher Smile Anachronism Stew Overprotective Dad Karma Houdini Dramatic Irony Smoking Is Cool Darkest Hour Suspiciously Specific Denial Rule of Funny I Did What I Had to Do Mama Bear Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Black and Gray Morality Pimped-Out Dress Christmas Movies Index Nice Guy Chekhov's Skill Dramatic Gun Cock Adaptation Expansion Punny Name No Antagonist Retired Badass Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Catapult Nightmare Dissonant Serenity 20 Minutes into the Future "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Flashback Shout-Out Costume Porn Science Fiction Films Anti-Villain Ungrateful Bastard Let's Get Dangerous! For Want of a Nail Love Triangle The Remake Riddle for the Ages Stuff Blowing Up Funny Background Event Meet Cute Victoria's Secret Compartment Evil vs. Evil Deus ex Machina Ripped from the Headlines Did Not Get the Girl Madness Mantra Five-Man Band Jerkass Hong Kong Films Arc Words Rated M for Manly Vacation Films Beta Couple Pay Evil unto Evil Star-Crossed Lovers Villain Ball The '50s Enemy Mine Rule of Three Pragmatic Adaptation Antagonist Title Becoming the Mask Gory Discretion Shot Reasonable Authority Figure '80s Hair Off-into-the-Distance Ending Arranged Marriage Deliberate Values Dissonance Arch-Enemy It's All About Me Stealth Pun Artistic License – Law Pragmatic Villainy Last-Name Basis The Load Distracted by the Sexy Death by Irony Corrupt Corporate Executive Peek-a-Boo Corpse Henpecked Husband The Casanova Cool Old Lady Dark and Troubled Past No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Conspicuous CG La Résistance Neck Snap Spiteful Spit Cowboy Cop Award-Bait Song Ass Shove Humiliation Conga Ambiguous Ending Left the Background Music On B-Movie Mad Scientist Take That! Love at First Sight Small Name, Big Ego Deadpan Snarker Evil Plan Dirty Old Man Scary Black Man Twist Ending Manchild Anti-Hero Wham Line Title Drop N-Word Privileges Continuity Nod Gender Flip Humans Are Bastards Eagleland Demoted to Extra Show Within a Show Naïve Newcomer A Father to His Men Heroes Want Redheads Red Shirt Big Brother Instinct Empathic Environment Decoy Protagonist Leave the Camera Running Dirty Coward Obviously Evil Only Sane Man Eiffel Tower Effect Downer Ending Happily Married Martial Arts Movie Catch-Phrase Say My Name The Lancer Worthy Opponent Eureka Moment The Mafia Gold Digger Domestic Abuse Hell Is That Noise I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Serious Business Be Careful What You Wish For Insane Troll Logic Getting Crap Past the Radar Line-of-Sight Name Determinator aka: The Determinator Country Matters The Alcoholic Hero of Another Story Mugging the Monster Silence Is Golden Punch-Clock Villain Heroic Sacrifice Adaptation Name Change The Brute True Companions Made of Iron Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Canon Foreigner All Girls Want Bad Boys Cain and Abel From Nobody to Nightmare Artistic License – Military Biopic How We Got Here Well-Intentioned Extremist Hypocrite Failed a Spot Check No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Demonic Possession Alpha Bitch Almost Kiss Eldritch Abomination Never Trust a Trailer Bar Brawl Central Theme "Shaggy Dog" Story Rasputinian Death Actually Pretty Funny Historical-Domain Character Artistic License – History Red Eyes, Take Warning Author Avatar The Chick Improvised Weapon Cloudcuckoolander Broken Aesop Adorkable Psycho for Hire Mystery and Detective Films Bland-Name Product All Men Are Perverts Scare Chord Nice Hat Killed Mid-Sentence A Minor Kidroduction Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Word of God Big Bad Once More, with Clarity! The Dragon Black Best Friend Your Cheating Heart Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Overly Long Gag Sci-Fi Horror Poor Communication Kills Developing Doomed Characters Meaningful Echo Roaring Rampage of Revenge Adaptation Dye-Job One-Word Title Only in It for the Money Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Black Comedy Femme Fatale All for Nothing Hero Antagonist Serial Killer Big Damn Heroes Foil Cat Fight Suddenly SHOUTING! Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Soft Glass Hate Sink Novelization Brother–Sister Incest Bittersweet Ending After the End Important Haircut Villain Opening Scene Room Full of Crazy Dirty Cop Those Two Bad Guys Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Setting Update Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bi the Way Married to the Job Bond Villain Stupidity Big Fancy House Curse Cut Short He Who Fights Monsters Calling the Old Man Out Malevolent Masked Men Manic Pixie Dream Girl Market-Based Title No Celebrities Were Harmed Laser-Guided Karma Foreshadowing Wounded Gazelle Gambit Heel–Face Turn Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Manipulative Bastard Suspiciously Similar Substitute Parental Incest Amusing Injuries Hoist by His Own Petard French Films Only a Flesh Wound The Reveal The Place Creepy Child Tagline Our Zombies Are Different Fanservice Extra Chekhov's Gun Dark Action Girl The Dreaded Wicked Cultured Real Life Vomit Discretion Shot Woman Scorned Spiritual Successor Handicapped Badass Works Set in World War II Due to the Dead Chekhov's Gunman Sealed Evil in a Can Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Gilligan Cut Homage Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Took a Level in Jerkass Translation Convention Affectionate Parody Sole Survivor Training Montage Fun with Acronyms Disproportionate Retribution Exactly What It Says on the Tin One Steve Limit Fat Bastard All There in the Script Guns Akimbo Crucified Hero Shot Retirony Spared by the Adaptation Mexican Standoff The Bully Face Death with Dignity Based on a True Story Super Strength Bald of Evil Creator Cameo Four-Temperament Ensemble Video Credits Trailers Always Spoil Horror Comedy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Hair-Trigger Temper Adaptational Attractiveness Tranquil Fury Those Two Guys Gorn Rewatch Bonus Drugs Are Bad Cool Shades Expository Hairstyle Change Deliberately Monochrome Final Girl Dark Reprise Needs Wiki Magic Love Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Mighty Whitey Adult Fear The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite My God, What Have I Done? Break the Haughty World of Ham Attempted Rape Plot Hole It Will Never Catch On Artistic License – Physics Alliterative Name Easily Forgiven Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Only One Name Action Genre As the Good Book Says... Cool Old Guy Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Death of a Child Silent Movie Lighter and Softer Foregone Conclusion Babies Ever After Badass Bookworm Woman in White Composite Character Documentary Gone Horribly Right Evil Brit NO INDOOR VOICE Early Installment Weirdness The Vamp Here We Go Again! The '80s Apocalypse How Call-Forward Maybe Ever After Evil Laugh Loophole Abuse Imagine Spot Precision F-Strike Dumb Blonde Toplessness from the Back Properly Paranoid The Stinger Never My Fault No Name Given Plucky Comic Relief Credits Gag Major Injury Underreaction Those Wacky Nazis Corpsing Not So Different Unwitting Instigator of Doom Contrived Coincidence Framing Device Chase Scene Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Ax-Crazy Drill Sergeant Nasty Children Are Innocent Disguised in Drag Obstructive Bureaucrat Real Life Writes the Plot Boom, Headshot! Loads and Loads of Characters Pyrrhic Victory "The Reason You Suck" Speech Animal Motifs Never Found the Body Crapsack World Take a Third Option Mistaken for Gay Villain Protagonist I'm a Humanitarian Evil Is Hammy Too Dumb to Live Older Than They Look Bloodier and Gorier She's Got Legs The Ditz Deconstruction Politically Incorrect Villain Jump Scare Insistent Terminology Parental Substitute Cluster F-Bomb Psychopathic Manchild A.I. Is a Crapshoot Curb-Stomp Battle Naked People Are Funny Disappeared Dad Double-Meaning Title The Great Depression Groin Attack Authority Equals Asskicking Fatal Flaw O.O.C. Is Serious Business Straight Gay Fake Shemp Beware the Nice Ones Cool Car Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Faking the Dead Book-Ends Brainless Beauty Blood Knight Genre Shift Animal Title Index Big Eater Aside Glance Not Using the "Z" Word As You Know Would Hurt a Child Unresolved Sexual Tension Black Comedy Rape Honor Before Reason Bait-and-Switch Recycled IN SPACE! Adaptational Villainy Parental Abandonment Card-Carrying Villain Paper-Thin Disguise Knight Templar Unspoken Plan Guarantee Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Interrupted Suicide Mercy Kill Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Genre Throwback Men Are the Expendable Gender Big "NO!" Slasher Movie Face–Heel Turn Hypocritical Humor Fantasy Films Horror Films Bottomless Magazines Television Movie Index Taking You with Me Our Vampires Are Different Cold-Blooded Torture Extreme Doormat Grievous Bottley Harm Jerk Jock Stealth Hi/Bye Token Minority Kick the Dog Mr. Exposition Shown Their Work Stock Footage Asshole Victim Italian Films Dogged Nice Guy Meaningful Name Have a Gay Old Time Chewing the Scenery Didn't Think This Through Blood from the Mouth Make It Look Like an Accident Refuge in Audacity Dying Moment of Awesome Creative Closing Credits Batman Gambit Annoying Younger Sibling The '90s No-Sell Sinister Minister Dramedy I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Truth in Television Frame-Up I Need a Freaking Drink Car Fu Bavarian Fire Drill The Stoic The Musical Bloody Hilarious Only Known by Their Nickname Unusual Euphemism Dual Wielding Historical In-Joke Time Skip He Knows Too Much Rape as Drama Ambiguous Disorder An Arm and a Leg Offscreen Moment of Awesome Brutal Honesty Undying Loyalty Despair Event Horizon Red Oni, Blue Oni Not Even Bothering with the Accent Artistic License – Geography Military and Warfare Films The Dog Bites Back Ambiguously Gay Actor Allusion Does This Remind You of Anything? Insult Backfire Black Dude Dies First German Films Yandere Meaningful Background Event Hooker with a Heart of Gold An Aesop Drives Like Crazy Accidental Misnaming Intrepid Reporter Damsel in Distress The Ghost Badass Grandpa In Name Only The Chessmaster Belligerent Sexual Tension Casting Gag Fatal Family Photo Adaptational Heroism Daylight Horror Bound and Gagged Establishing Character Moment Fourth Date Marriage Romantic False Lead The Hero Ghost Fiction Fainting Impaled with Extreme Prejudice What the Hell, Hero? Ominous Latin Chanting Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Redshirt Army Epic Movie Fantastic Racism The Hero Dies An Axe to Grind Heterosexual Life-Partners Covers Always Lie Random Events Plot Reality Is Unrealistic Fanservice Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Everyone Has Standards Diabolus ex Machina Faux Affably Evil Bond One-Liner Even Evil Has Standards The Film of the Book Abhorrent Admirer Auto Erotica Freudian Excuse Pre-Mortem One-Liner My Beloved Smother Put on a Bus Defrosting Ice Queen A God Am I Department of Redundancy Department Good Is Not Nice Break the Cutie Slap-Slap-Kiss Australian Movies Red Right Hand Shoot the Shaggy Dog Action Prologue Sir Swears-a-Lot Badass Normal Eye Scream Artistic License – Gun Safety Villainous Breakdown Sadistic Choice Sports Stories Driven to Suicide Bolivian Army Ending Running Gag Historical Villain Upgrade Skewed Priorities Canadian Movies Heel Realization Together in Death Would Hit a Girl Evil Is Petty Gratuitous English My Greatest Failure Abusive Parents Death by Sex Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Hollywood Law Whole Plot Reference Large Ham Up to Eleven Outrun the Fireball It Can Think Reckless Gun Usage Russian Films Wretched Hive Mind Screw Improbable Weapon User Sacrificial Lion Author Appeal Dwindling Party Betty and Veronica Male Gaze Light Is Not Good Death by Adaptation Dutch Angle Police are Useless Romantic Comedy Action Girl No OSHA Compliance The Atoner As Himself Japanese Films Film Noir Index Kill 'em All Berserk Button Pre-Asskicking One-Liner As Long as It Sounds Foreign And I Must Scream The '70s Informed Ability From Bad to Worse This Is Gonna Suck The Ace Bad Boss Pet the Dog Vampire Fiction Villain with Good Publicity Oh, Crap! Green-Eyed Monster Nothing Is Scarier May–December Romance The Bad Guy Wins Breaking the Fourth Wall Bare Your Midriff Flipping the Bird The Voiceless Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Sexy Discretion Shot Scenery Gorn Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Eyepatch of Power Throwing Your Sword Always Works You Have Failed Me Self-Deprecation Storming the Castle Ms. Fanservice Get Out! Action Survivor Redemption Equals Death Shipper on Deck Blackmail Disney Death Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Music Stories Amoral Attorney BFG The Alleged Car Stalker with a Crush Animated Credits Opening Artistic License – Biology Grey and Gray Morality Idiot Ball Really Gets Around Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Vomit Indiscretion Shot Bunny-Ears Lawyer Psychological Thriller Names to Run Away from Really Fast Karmic Death Laughing Mad Big-Bad Ensemble Stepford Smiler Combat Pragmatist Non-Indicative Name Camera Abuse Pretty Little Headshots And the Adventure Continues Alas, Poor Villain Affably Evil Rousing Speech Destination Defenestration Determinator Moment Killer Fiery Redhead Kick the Son of a Bitch Hope Spot Extremely Short Timespan Brick Joke All There in the Manual Closed Circle In Medias Res Adaptation Distillation Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Vitriolic Best Buds Missing Mom Not What It Looks Like Race Lift Slashed Throat Protagonist Title The Quiet One Dropped a Bridge on Him Comically Missing the Point Lock and Load Montage Wrong Genre Savvy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bowdlerise Public Domain Feature Films Smug Snake The Cavalry Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Smurfette Principle The Faceless Bilingual Bonus Spell My Name with an "S" What You Are in the Dark Wham Shot You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Implacable Man Man on Fire Blatant Lies Thriller Superhero Adapted Out Hollywood Darkness Butt-Monkey I Have Your Wife Film Noir Tap on the Head All Just a Dream Gainax Ending Shell-Shocked Veteran Evil-Detecting Dog Captain Ersatz Police Brutality Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Stylistic Suck The End... Or Is It? Fingore Drowning My Sorrows Death Glare You Killed My Father Sanity Slippage Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adults Are Useless Darker and Edgier Historical Hero Upgrade Expy Big Applesauce Unreliable Narrator Mr. Fanservice timeperiod Character Development Badass in a Nice Suit Narrator Rich Bitch Taking the Bullet Not So Stoic Captain Obvious Chiaroscuro Double Entendre Visual Pun Unusually Uninteresting Sight Cassandra Truth Broken Bird Instant Death Bullet Half the Man He Used to Be The Stoner Rule of Cool Took a Level in Badass Lampshade Hanging Dull Surprise Made of Explodium Famous Last Words Tempting Fate Your Head A-Splode Awesome, but Impractical Exact Words Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Race Against the Clock