Tropescilloscope: No Antagonist

There is a conflict, but no antagonist that causes it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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