Tropescilloscope: Big Bad Duumvirate

Two or more main villains working together. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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