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