Tropescilloscope: Anti-Villain

The antagonist is rather morally ambiguous instead of straight evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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