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