Tropescilloscope: Those Two Bad Guys

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

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