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