Those Two Guys is for when two side characters give in-universe commentary. It has since been bastardized to mean two characters are close to the point of inseparability or The Dividual. I expect to find the incorrect definition along with many ZCEs.
I think that this trope should be diasambiguated between a new trope for what Those Two Guys used to mean and The Dividual.
Wicks Checked: 85/85
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Correct usage (2/85, 2%)
- Characters.Fate Grand Order Casters G To M: He and Shakespeare often serve as the writer duo to comment on the story and/or despair their own progress at writing.
- Characters.PAYDAY 2 Contacts And Contractors: Vlad and Locke share the comms for the the San MartÃn Bank Heist, who are both in a car nearby, with Locke even calling Vlad a Backseat Driver. I've never played PAYDAY 2, but if "comms" means Mission Control, then I think this is correct, though still debatable
Characters are often/always seen together / The Dividual (26/85, 30%)
- Characters.Claymore Clares Generation: Especially close to Cynthia. It seems all Claymores have to come in pairs.
- Characters.Knights In The Nightmare: Bans and Firenzen. Both are Alcoholics who also encourage others to drink
- Characters.Avenue Q: He and Rod are a subversion. They're seldom seem apart, but their divergent personalities mean that being around each other all the time is, in their words, "a hell."
- Characters.Hotspring Souls: Always seen with Eileen in the first story, and with Ludwig in the sequel.
- Characters.Link Click: Is rarely seen without Cheng Xiaoshi nearby. The two of them can practically be described as inseparable.
- Characters.Superjail Citizens: There's a duo of unimpressed guys that pop up every now and then. While they're not name-dropped and aren't as central as the main group of inmates through the later seasons, they tend to appear when there's an extended group.
- Characters.Village Tales The Staff: Tend to appear and work in tandem.
- WesternAnimation.Yogis Treasure Hunt: Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound are never apart in this series.
- Manga.Food Wars: Daigo and Shoji, the two previously-unnamed characters from the Polaris Dormitory, always appear together and has very little characterization beyond their role as the dorm's crowd filler. So far, they are the only ones who have not been shown any specialty skill area, didn't make the Fall Classic, and, aside from quick shots of them in a kitchen to show they do actually cook, we've never seen any food they've made.
- Characters.Underworld 2003: They share all of their scenes and seem to be confidants to each other.
- Film.The Jungle Book 2016: The porcupine and the peacock. They first fight for a stick and after the final battle they stand next to each other.
- Characters.Survivor 41: Plays almost her entire game alongside Heather.
- Characters.Riverdale Residents: With Moose Mason. They are very close friends and they are always seen together.
- Characters.Pippi Longstocking: They are always seen together.
- Characters.Steven Universe Diamond Authority: In the present day, Blue and Yellow are almost never seen separately.
- Literature.The October List: Detectives Kepler and Surani, when they're not inconveniencing Gabriela and Daniel, keep stabbing jokes at each other. They're also lovers.
- Characters.Dot Flow: They're usually seen in the same room, more often than not, however, the nurse can be seen separately in the Plant Labryrinth.
- Characters.Kaguya Sama Love Is War Second Years: They always appear together, and very little is known about them as individuals other than what their parents' jobs are (Hinokuchi has a parent that's an advertising executive, and Suruga's parent is the president of a famous IT company).
- Main.Two Guys And A Girl: The Road to El Dorado starts with Miguel and Tulio until Chel joins them later and flirts with them both. They agree that Chell is "off limits" but Tulio ends up making out with her anyway
- TheBigBangTheory.Tropes T To Z: Howard and Raj, and their "ersatz homosexual marriage". Although they aren't as directly connected to Sheldon, Leonard and Penny (by virtue of not being neighbors or roommates), they do manage to do activities separate from each other and the others but do play up the Ho Yay undertones in certain episodes.
- Series.Caesars Challenge: Ahmad and the various Centurions (most recognizably Dan Doherty) would spend a few minutes with jokes and props before starting the game.
- Characters.Bodyguard UK 2018: Always seen with DS Louise while doing CTC duties.
- Manga.Princess Tutu: Mai and Yuma are almost never seen apart and provide exposition at times.
- Characters.What Lies Beyond The Walls The Long Patrol: They're never seen apart from each other. It's implied they were either brothers or had been friends since they were leverets.
- Series.The Mayor: Jermaine and TK are rarely seen apart and spend most of their screen time bouncing inane ideas off of each other.
- * Series.The Crew 2021: Chuck and Amir, who are almost always seen together cracking jokes or working on the team's car.
Zero-context examples (27/85, 32%)
- Characters.Banal Fantasy II: Just the trope name.
- WesternAnimation.Finding Nemo: Anchor and Chum.
- Manga.given: Hiiragi and Shizusumi; Ueki and Itaya; Kasai and Kurihara. Commented out
- Characters.Warrior Cats Sky Clan: With Macgyver. In Hawkwing's Journey this is ended, as he stays with his housefolk while Macgyver chooses to stay with SkyClan.
- Manga.Captain Tsubasa: Nakano and Ichikawa, the two cheerleaders who were often subjected to Sanae's temper tantrums.
- Characters.Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children: Claire and Olive are "the little ones".
- Series.Treasure Hunt US: Geoff and Emile to a certain extent.
- Literature.Into The Heartless Wood: Baines and Rheinallt, the two Tarian soldiers Owen befriends upon joining the army. Rheinallt is later revealed to be a royal from a neighboring kingdom disguised as a soldier.
- Webcomic.JL 8: Hal and Barry, Mikey and Ted.
- Characters.Spartacus Blood And Sand Protagonists Gods Of The Arena: With Naevia.
- Characters.Upin And Ipin: With Fizi. This page has four wicks of Those Two Guys, all of them ZCEs
- Characters.Amagi Brilliant Park: With Tiramie.
- Characters.Star Wars Imperial Garrisons: With Huck.
- Creator.Jaime Roca: As mentioned, he and Jorge Saudinós tend to have fun with this trope in public meetings.
- SugarWiki.Watchmen: Nite Owl and Rorschach.
- Characters.The Sopranos Christopher Moltisanti: Gets lumped into this with Paulie, which pisses both of them off.
- Characters.The Maltese Falcon 1941: With Dundy. Commented out
- Characters.Big Brother 16 The Jury: First with Nicole and later on with Christine. This page has four wicks of Those Two Guys, all of them ZCEs
- Characters.Saving Private Ryan: Mellish and Caparzo.
- Characters.Universal Wrestling Federation NSBW: With Jado, for almost all of his career.
- Fanfic.An Unlikely Sort Of Paradise: Sword and Blade. Commented out
- Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes: Just the trope name, commented out
- Anime.Tenchi Muyo: One of the first anime series to introduce the trope. Tenchi's two schoolmates serve the purpose to various degrees on Earth, as do Ayeka's bodyguards, Azaka and Kamidake off-Earth.
- DarthWiki.Rise Roleplay: With Guild.
- ComicBook.Generation X 2017: Benjamin and Lin are sometimes depicted this way, like on the cover of issue #1 above.
Potholes (All except one are ZC or misused) (27/85, 32%)
- Fridge.Pitch Perfect: In the sequel both Jessica and Ashley, dismissed yet again, say that they're Jessica. It's a hilarious line. However, there's Fridge Brilliance of it being one of either A. They have genuinely forgotten, too. Unlikely, but possible given that they're just Those Two Guys. B. Ashley knows that nobody actually knows or cares and because the pair are always referred to as "Jessica and Ashley", she'd at least like to come first. More likely, and pretty funny in itself.
- Characters.Symphogear Symphogear Wielders: True Companions: With Maria and Shirabe, but especially the latter.
- Series.Death Note: Demoted to Extra: While Mogi got the opposite trope, Matsuda and Aizawa were barely any more than Those Two Guys, and the former's most impressive moments were either given to somebody else, written out, or someone else's idea.
- Anime.Seiren: Those Two Girls of the Home Ec Club, Koharu Uno and Nao Tokioka are basically this for Amagami's Those Two Girls of the Tea Club, Ruriko Yuzuki and Manaka Hiba respectively. Sub-bullet of Expy
- SpiritualSuccessor.Video Games: The Two Guys from Andromeda, the guys behind the Space Quest games, have just recently come back together to try and create a "SpaceVenture
" that looks every inch like it'll be a successor to their previous series. They've even gotten Gary Owens back to narrate again! - Characters.Inception: ...he plays much more like The Smart Guy, given... his Those Two Guys relationship he has with... Eames, who... is a Boisterous Bruiser version of The Big Guy. Shortened
- Series.Blakes Seven: Robert Holmes has a liking for the Avon/Vila pairing, Those Two Guys and Everybody's Dead, Dave. Sub-bullet of Signature Style
- SacrificialLion.Anime And Manga: Due to a case of Schrödinger's Cat, the manga version of Neon Genesis Evangelion's Toji Suzuhara met a much more definite fate than his anime counterpart shortly past the show's halfway point. He did undergo some character development back as one of Those Two Guys (mainly through his connection to his hospitalized sister), but only really became notable after he got The Call... Shortened
- Series.Go On: Ryan and Anne tend to have the dynamics of a very snarky Those Two Guys / Heterosexual Life Partner type pairing. Sub-bullet of Odd Friendship
- Manga.Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka: The Call Knows Where You Live: Asuka may want to leave the business of being a Magical Girl behind her, but the combination of insistence from her JSDF contacts (including fellow Magical Girl Kurumi) and her two Muggle friends finding themselves embroiled in deadly magical terrorism-related situations makes her reluctantly reconsider.
- WMG.Glee Jossed: Not only has he had no lines so far while his other half Mike "Other Asian" Chang has had two, one of which could easily have been given to Matt, he spent an entire episode AWOL due to hospitalization because there was a spider in his ear. He'll probably spend the rest of season one silent, only to break out into sudden, unprompted SesquipedalianLoquaciousness in the last ten minutes of the season.
- Main.Shameless Self Promoter: Forest Kingdom: In the Hawk & Fisher spinoff series book 2 (Winner Takes All), Joshua Kincaid is one of a pair of mercenaries (along with his partner, Laurence Bearclaw) who help to protect James Adamant. He also has a sideline, writing chapbook adventure-stories and songs with himself as the hero under a nom de plume.
- Characters.Lorien Legacies Other Characters: You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The main deciders of this. Whether it be Cepans to force Garde to watch tortured, or the two conspiracy theorists, one of whom is forced to swallow what looked like a miniature version of a Sentinel Sphere from Phantasm.
- Literature.The Third The Girl With The Blue Eye: Anyone Can Die: You'd think a pair of town punks in the middle of the series would end up being Those Two Guys, wouldn't you?
- Funny.Wotakoi Love Is Hard For Otaku: Hirotaka takes to hanging out with two of his coworkers. Unfortunately for them, Hirotaka keeps getting their names wrong.
- Main.Development Gag: Disco Elysium: Your player character's precinct has a Walking Disaster Area Buddy cop partnership consisting of Dumb Muscle Mack "The Torso" Torson and the feeble but calculating Chester McLaine, who serve as Those Two Guys in conversations with the Precinct/visions via the Esprit de Corps skill... Shortened
- Characters.Gaiking Legend Of Daiku Maryu: The Nicknamer: Puria Richardson becomes Richard-san; Crab Banker becomes Kani-tank, and by extension Diver Gaiking becomes KaniKing; Puria's group become Moustache Trio; Stinger becomes That Kite Thing.
- TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye.Tropes E To I: Hero of Another Story: Spoke and Lockstock. Their deeds are always mentioned as having happened off-panel, Heck, we have yet to see them. Ironically, might also count as Those Two Guys.
- Main.Ill Pretend I Didnt Hear That: Blake's 7. In "Killer", Blake teleports down to help a Federation base deal with a deadly virus. When he informs a couple of research technicians that he's the Federation's most wanted political criminal, they reply that they can hardly be expected to remember people's names.
- Main.Trap Door: Short "When Thieves Drop By" reveals that Flix and Orka have a trapdoor installed at the front of their shop, the Office of Acquisitions, for the purposes of dropping would-be thieves down it. Brothers and criminals Narb and Nod both separately fall victim to it.
- ShipMates.Anime And Manga: Iwaizumi/Oikawa stories like to include Matsukawa/Hanamaki. Sub-bullet of Haikyuu!
- WesternAnimation.The Aristocats: Those Two Guys Lafayette and Napoleon also count. You can just hear Pat Buttram and George Lindsey snickering in the microphone during the motorcycle chase scene. Sub-bullet of Large Ham
- ShooOutTheClowns.Animated Films: Monster House both plays this trope straight and downplays it. The movie takes on a darker, serious tone when Officers Landers and Lister are eaten by the house... Shortened
- Manga.Yona Of The Dawn: Heterosexual Life-Partners: Heang-Dea and Tae-Woo, the guards from the Wind Tribe, who are nearly always together.
- Anime.Shin Mazinger: Severed Head Sports: Boss, Macha and Nuke play a round of soccer with Count Brocken's head. It was played for laughs since Brocken is still alive despite this, and was not happy about it.
- Film.The Lord Of The Rings: Fatal Fireworks: There's a comedic, non-fatal example: at Bilbo's birthday party, Pippin and Merry steal and launch one of Gandalf's firework rockets, ending up with an Ash Face.
- Funny.The World Ends With You: ...The third is Kariya and Uzuki... and Neku does not have such a nice reason if he tries to help. Shortened
- Manga.Nagasarete Airantou: Innocent Cohabitation: Ikuto and Suzu. There are no Those Two Guys to lampshade this, of course, but then again, the rest of the Unwanted Harem is jealous This was the only pothole used correctly
Other uses (3/85, 4%)
- Pantheon.Friendship Dynamics A To L: Portfolios: Heterosexual Life-Partners, Those Two Stoners, Anti-Hero, High-School Rejects, Fat and Skinny
- Pantheon.Duos: Portfolio: Two individuals who act like one person, Not Actually Twins, Those Two Guys... Shortened
- Invisible Subtle Difference: Generally Played for Laughs. Often appears with Limited Wardrobe, Evil Twin, Planet of Steves, Those Two Guys, and/or Only Sane Man. Compare and contrast Shell Game, Spot the Imposter, Needle in a Stack of Needles, and I Am Spartacus. This may be used to indicate Hyper-Awareness, or as one of the components of a Sherlock Scan.
