Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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