Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

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

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