Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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