Tropescilloscope: No Antagonist

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

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