Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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