Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

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

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