Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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