Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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