Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

The good guys oppose the main characters. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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