Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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