Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

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

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