Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

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

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