Tropescilloscope: Anti-Villain

The antagonist is rather morally ambiguous instead of straight evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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