Tropescilloscope: Villain Opening Scene

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

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