Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

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