Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

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

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