Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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