Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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