Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

The main character is unambiguously evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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