Tropescilloscope: Worthy Opponent

A character shows their respect for an adversary. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Random Events Plot Politically Incorrect Villain Meet Cute Extreme Doormat A Minor Kidroduction Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Spanner in the Works Anguished Declaration of Love Daylight Horror Book-Ends Men Are the Expendable Gender Bald of Evil Anachronic Order Adaptational Badass Historical Hero Upgrade Costume Porn Death by Irony Loads and Loads of Characters Translation Convention Bullying a Dragon Race Against the Clock Pre-Mortem One-Liner Impaled with Extreme Prejudice No Celebrities Were Harmed Sir Swears-a-Lot Title Drop Heel Realization Slasher Movie Manly Tears Taking You with Me Deadpan Snarker Combat Pragmatist As the Good Book Says... Mythology Gag May–December Romance Adaptational Attractiveness Hidden Depths The Cavalry Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Half the Man He Used to Be Downer Ending Obfuscating Stupidity Alas, Poor Villain The Film of the Book Rasputinian Death Broken Aesop The Load Bring My Brown Pants You Killed My Father Wretched Hive Only Known by Their Nickname Trailers Always Spoil Action Genre Woman in White Ascended Extra Precision F-Strike You Have Failed Me The Ace The Voiceless Eiffel Tower Effect Babies Ever After The Faceless Stalker with a Crush Killed Mid-Sentence Male Gaze Wham Line Author Appeal Plucky Comic Relief Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Brit Hero of Another Story Time Skip BFG Badass Boast Zombie Stories Well-Intentioned Extremist Our Vampires Are Different Not Quite Dead Cool Old Lady Abusive Parents Eagleland Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Truth in Television Not So Different Artistic License – Physics Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Department of Redundancy Department Disappeared Dad Dull Surprise Genre Shift Expy No Name Given Red Eyes, Take Warning Love at First Sight Cat Fight Recycled IN SPACE! Beware the Nice Ones Jump Scare Conspicuous CG Badass Longcoat Gold Digger Bound and Gagged Jerk with a Heart of Gold Scenery Gorn Took a Level in Jerkass Jerkass Has a Point Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! timeperiod Same Language Dub Not So Stoic Suspiciously Similar Substitute Meaningful Echo Beta Couple Bolivian Army Ending Reality Ensues Honor Before Reason Empathic Environment Be Careful What You Wish For Military and Warfare Films The Quiet One Redshirt Army Getting Crap Past the Radar The Smurfette Principle Cat Scare Pay Evil unto Evil Properly Paranoid Wicked Cultured Dark Action Girl La Résistance Put on a Bus The '50s Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Male Frontal Nudity Informed Ability War Is Hell Amusing Injuries Agony of the Feet Reality Has No Subtitles Bad Boss Historical-Domain Character Parental Incest Bunny-Ears Lawyer Vitriolic Best Buds Creative Closing Credits Insult Backfire The Lost Lenore Sacrificial Lion My God, What Have I Done? Token Minority Batman Gambit Leaning on the Fourth Wall Ship Tease No-Sell Rule of Three Manchild Mistaken for Gay The Alleged Car Italian Films The Dragon Fantastic Racism Grey and Gray Morality Implacable Man All Girls Want Bad Boys Death by Adaptation Does Not Like Shoes Captain Ersatz Mexican Standoff This Is Gonna Suck Revenge Shout-Out Friend to All Children Even Evil Has Standards Adapted Out Bittersweet Ending Central Theme Didn't Think This Through The Great Depression Creator Cameo Whole Plot Reference Mighty Whitey folderlabel Did Not Get the Girl Rule of Cool Never Found the Body The Brute Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Brick Joke Works Set in World War II Parental Abandonment Those Two Bad Guys Double-Meaning Title Mr. Fanservice Black Dude Dies First Heroes Want Redheads Pragmatic Villainy Establishing Character Moment As You Know Retired Badass Improbable Aiming Skills Brutal Honesty I Did What I Had to Do Pragmatic Adaptation Gorn Papa Wolf Unresolved Sexual Tension Back from the Dead Annoying Younger Sibling Sequel Escalation Suddenly SHOUTING! 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