Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

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

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