Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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