Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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