Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

Always seen together with little plot significance. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Woman in White Recycled IN SPACE! Kill It with Fire Fanservice Extra Left the Background Music On Mind Screw NO INDOOR VOICE Laser-Guided Karma Boom, Headshot! Meaningful Background Event Deliberately Monochrome Kick the Dog Silence Is Golden Jerkass Has a Point Big Bad Badass Boast Villainous Breakdown Historical In-Joke Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Not Quite Dead Your Head A-Splode "The Reason You Suck" Speech True Companions Pragmatic Villainy Death by Irony The Cameo Fun with Acronyms Crazy Jealous Guy Cat Scare Sacrificial Lion Apocalypse How Together in Death Contrived Coincidence Hair-Trigger Temper Cool Shades What the Hell, Hero? Killed Mid-Sentence Evil Sounds Deep Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Deus ex Machina Public Domain Feature Films Face–Heel Turn Brutal Honesty Comically Missing the Point Everyone Has Standards Pretty Little Headshots An Arm and a Leg Spanner in the Works Happily Married The Musical Adult Fear Hypocritical Humor Up to Eleven Villain Song Casting Gag Red Shirt Mama Bear Every Car Is a Pinto The Alleged Car Not So Stoic The Chick Final Girl Romantic False Lead Stalker with a Crush One-Man Army Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Psychological Thriller Awesome, but Impractical Betty and Veronica This Is Gonna Suck Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Implacable Man Drowning My Sorrows Meaningful Name Pretty in Mink Race Lift Combat Pragmatist The Mole Big Fancy House Shout-Out Real Life Credits Gag Obfuscating Stupidity Bloodless Carnage Noodle Incident Brainless Beauty Diabolus ex Machina War Is Hell Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Action Genre Psycho for Hire Artistic License – Military Disproportionate Retribution Suspiciously Specific Denial Mad Scientist Gorn No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Insistent Terminology Homage Reality Has No Subtitles Eureka Moment I Did What I Had to Do For Want of a Nail Take That! 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Guy She's Got Legs Dramedy Mood Whiplash Deal with the Devil Leave the Camera Running As Himself Central Theme Logo Joke Visual Pun Let's Get Dangerous! Antagonist Title Neck Snap Anguished Declaration of Love For the Evulz Here We Go Again! The X of Y Air-Vent Passageway Author Avatar Tranquil Fury Historical Villain Upgrade Freudian Excuse Hope Spot Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Arc Words Ambiguous Ending Psychopathic Manchild Animal Motifs Mythology Gag Fat Bastard Serial Killer Mr. Fanservice The Load The '90s Ominous Latin Chanting The Mafia Reasonable Authority Figure Action Prologue Wicked Cultured The Ace My Greatest Failure Death of a Child Stepford Smiler Jitter Cam Real Life Writes the Plot Bad Boss Pet the Dog Off with His Head! Depraved Bisexual Villain Protagonist Bottomless Magazines