Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

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

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