Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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