Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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