Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

The good guys oppose the main characters. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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