Tropescilloscope: Not So Different

Two opponents realize they're not so different. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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