Tropescilloscope: Those Two Guys

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

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