Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

Good friends that act like bitter enemies. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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