Tropescilloscope: Worthy Opponent

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