Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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