Tropescilloscope: Anti-Villain

The antagonist is rather morally ambiguous instead of straight evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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