Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

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

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