Tropescilloscope: Big Bad Duumvirate

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

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