Tropescilloscope: Antagonist Title

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

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