Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

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