Tropescilloscope: Vitriolic Best Buds

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