Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

A pair of psychos who provide exposition, Seinfeldian Conversations, and violence. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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