Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

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