Tropescilloscope: Hero Antagonist

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

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