Tropescilloscope: No Antagonist

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

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