Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

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

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