Tropescilloscope: Big Bad Duumvirate

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

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