Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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