Tropescilloscope: No Antagonist

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

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