Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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