Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

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

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