Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

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

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