Tropescilloscope: No Antagonist

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

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A Father to His Men The Stinger Protagonist Title "Well Done, Son!" Guy Stylistic Suck Black Dude Dies First Scare Chord Batman Gambit Token Minority Foregone Conclusion Obstructive Bureaucrat Creepy Child Paper-Thin Disguise Undying Loyalty He Who Fights Monsters Index of Film Westerns Only in It for the Money The Reveal Bare Your Midriff Gold Digger Vomit Indiscretion Shot Badass Boast Unusually Uninteresting Sight Dirty Coward Take a Third Option Action Prologue Gender Flip Australian Movies Broken Pedestal Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Tempting Fate Sports Stories Self-Deprecation The Musical Monumental Damage Dramedy Bolivian Army Ending Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fiery Redhead Homage Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Stoner Serious Business Damsel in Distress Arch-Enemy Crucified Hero Shot Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Offscreen Teleportation Psychopathic Manchild Small Name, Big Ego Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Reasonable Authority Figure Ungrateful Bastard Actually Pretty Funny The '90s Action Girl Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fanservice Extra For Want of a Nail What You Are in the Dark Not So Stoic A Minor Kidroduction Meaningful Background Event Cool Shades Moment Killer Continuity Nod Double Entendre Sequel Hook Take That! Overly Long Gag Bowdlerise Chekhov's Skill Five-Man Band Silent Movie Serial Killer Curse Cut Short Pre-Mortem One-Liner Earn Your Happy Ending Lighter and Softer "Awesome McCool" Name Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Drugs Are Bad Novelization Male Gaze Storming the Castle Intergenerational Friendship Adaptational Badass Time Skip Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Jitter Cam Dull Surprise Expy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Horror Comedy Male Frontal Nudity Straight Gay Celebrity Paradox The Mole Military and Warfare Films Skewed Priorities Bloodier and Gorier Retirony Bad "Bad Acting" For the Evulz Really Gets Around No Antagonist As Long as It Sounds Foreign Catapult Nightmare Big Bad Duumvirate Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Shown Their Work Breaking the Fourth Wall Major Injury Underreaction Politically Incorrect Villain Almost Kiss O.O.C. 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Hidden Depths Truth in Television The Ace Offscreen Moment of Awesome True Companions Destination Defenestration Fainting Animal Title Index Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism It's All About Me Grievous Bottley Harm Martial Arts Movie Refuge in Audacity Ghost Fiction Disguised in Drag The Quiet One Dissonant Serenity Kick the Son of a Bitch Room Full of Crazy Pragmatic Villainy Rasputinian Death Adaptational Heroism The Mafia I Did What I Had to Do Blackmail Sole Survivor As You Know Insane Troll Logic The Smart Guy Darker and Edgier Character Development Smug Snake Bond Villain Stupidity Deal with the Devil Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Honor Before Reason Creative Closing Credits Break the Haughty Blood Knight Fatal Family Photo Woman Scorned She's Got Legs Victoria's Secret Compartment Villain with Good Publicity The '80s Put on a Bus Death by Sex Dies Wide Open Captain Ersatz Dressing as the Enemy BFG Married to the Job Crazy Jealous Guy Death Glare Eldritch Abomination Slashed Throat Stock Footage I'm a Humanitarian Freudian Excuse Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bavarian Fire Drill Hoist by His Own Petard Groin Attack Improvised Weapon Guile Hero Half the Man He Used to Be Deconstruction Obfuscating Stupidity Playing Gertrude Rule of Symbolism Bittersweet Ending Toplessness from the Back Wham Line Mr. Fanservice Random Events Plot Only One Name German Films Even Evil Has Standards Suspiciously Similar Substitute 20 Minutes into the Future Cowboy Cop Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dark Action Girl Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Determinator aka: The Determinator Anti-Villain Poor Communication Kills Red Right Hand Vacation Films Domestic Abuse Depraved Bisexual MacGuffin Shower Scene Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Re-Cut Disproportionate Retribution Works Set in World War II Race Against the Clock One Steve Limit Frame-Up Eureka Moment Dual Wielding Word of God Anachronic Order Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Badass Bookworm Romantic Comedy And I Must Scream I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Heroes Want Redheads Beware the Nice Ones Bland-Name Product Revenge Cat Scare Disappeared Dad Kill It with Fire Smoking Is Cool More Dakka Girl-on-Girl Is Hot As the Good Book Says... The Bad Guy Wins Made of Explodium Throwing Your Sword Always Works No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sassy Black Woman Award-Bait Song Darkest Hour Historical Villain Upgrade Parental Substitute Fantasy Films Blood from the Mouth Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Heel–Face Turn Karma Houdini From Bad to Worse Japanese Films Arc Words Music Stories Conspicuous CG Eye Scream Dark Reprise Back from the Dead Never Trust a Trailer Decoy Protagonist Precision F-Strike Well-Intentioned Extremist Immune to Bullets Manipulative Bastard Leitmotif Deliberately Monochrome Villainous Breakdown Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Action Genre Catch-Phrase Babies Ever After Not So Different Neck Lift Once More, with Clarity! 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Good Is Not Nice Stuff Blowing Up Does Not Like Shoes Be Careful What You Wish For Your Cheating Heart As Himself Antagonist Title Red Shirt Broken Bird Card-Carrying Villain Hollywood Law Running Gag Cold-Blooded Torture Corpsing Dirty Cop War Is Hell "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Becoming the Mask Chase Scene Russian Films Superhero She Cleans Up Nicely My God, What Have I Done? Tap on the Head Reckless Gun Usage Eiffel Tower Effect Big Damn Heroes Camera Abuse It Can Think Beauty Is Never Tarnished Show Within a Show Badass Normal Eagleland Death Seeker Better to Die than Be Killed Fanservice Actor Allusion Covers Always Lie Meet Cute Authority Equals Asskicking Auto Erotica In Name Only Enemy Mine Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Taking You with Me Ambiguous Ending Pragmatic Adaptation What the Hell, Hero? Brick Joke Big Eater Red Herring Lampshade Hanging The Big Guy Non-Indicative Name Diabolus ex Machina Whole Plot Reference Scenery Gorn Even Evil Has Loved Ones Genre Savvy Parental Incest Instant Death Bullet Rule of Funny Bottomless Magazines Chiaroscuro Evil vs. Evil Laser-Guided Karma Deliberate Values Dissonance Not Even Bothering with the Accent