Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

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

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