Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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