Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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