Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

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

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