Tropescilloscope: Big Bad Duumvirate

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

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