Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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