Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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