Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

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

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