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