Tropescilloscope: True Companions

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