Tropescilloscope: Worthy Opponent

A character shows their respect for an adversary. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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