Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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