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