Tropescilloscope: Big Bad Duumvirate

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

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