Tropescilloscope: Big Bad Duumvirate

Two or more main villains working together. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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