Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

The main character is unambiguously evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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