Tropescilloscope: Big Bad Duumvirate

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

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