Tropescilloscope: Big Bad Duumvirate

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

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