Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

A work opens by introducing the antagonist. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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