Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

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

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