Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

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