Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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