Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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