Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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