Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

Always seen together with little plot significance. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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