Tropescilloscope: No Antagonist

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

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