Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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