Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

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