Tropescilloscope: No Antagonist

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

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