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