The Antagonist is an Omnipresent Trope that is present in almost every story, and therefore has spawned lots of Sub Tropes.
See Protagonist Tropes for tropes about its opposite number.
Tropes:
- Antagonist in Mourning: The antagonist mourns the protagonist's death.
- Antagonist Title: The work is named after the antagonist.
- The Heavy: The antagonist that provides the most conflict in the story.
- Hero Antagonist: The antagonist is a hero.
- Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: A confident antagonist, contrasted with a more insecure protagonist.
- Main Character Final Boss: The protagonist ends up playing the role of the final boss at the end of the story, either betraying the rest of the team or the deuteragonist or being possessed by the Big Bad.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: The antagonist is condemned for doing the same things the story gives the protagonist a pass on.
- No Antagonist: The work doesn't have an antagonist.
- Rogue Protagonist: An old protagonist becomes the new antagonist in the sequel.
- Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: The antagonist is a sympathetic cop trying to capture the Villain Protagonist.
- Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: A duo consisting of a sympathetic antagonist and a irredeemably evil antagonist.
- Villain Antagonist: An Omnipresent Trope in itself, and is why the Villains index is related to this.
