Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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