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