Tropescilloscope: Big-Bad Ensemble

A series has more than one Big Bad, sometimes separate and sometimes at odds. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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