Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

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

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