Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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