Tropescilloscope: Villain Protagonist

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

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