Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

The work is titled after whoever or whatever the protagonist fights against. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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