Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

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

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