Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

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

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