Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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