Tropescilloscope: No Antagonist

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

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