Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

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

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