Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

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

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