Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

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

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