No Antagonist / Film

Films — Animation

• Disney has been doing this lately starting in the late 2010s and 2020s as a way to strengthen and explore their protagonists in depth and to show how much more complex the world is and how's it not a simple "as good vs evil" compared to their past films:
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet sees Ralph and Vanellope causing some conflict with their own insecurities, short-sightedness, and trying to work through their dreams and issues. However, neither one is presented as the bad guy, even if some of their decisions are made out to be bad ones. The closest there are to any bad guys at all are either not outwardly antagonistic or just doing what they were designed to do, and in the case of the former, the Wreck-It Ralph virus was an accident on their part.
  • In contrast to the first movie (albeit under Plot-Irrelevant Villain), Frozen II doesn't have a villain. The real villain who started the conflict, King Runeard is already dead by the time the story takes place. Instead, the movie is all about the sisters finding a way to remove the curse trapping the Enchanted Forest brought upon the spirits that their grandfather angered with the climax of the story involving Anna provoking Earth Giant to destroy the dam to lift the curse and free the people trapped there.
  • Similar to Frozen II, the closest thing to a villain in Encanto The horsemen were already dead by the time story takes place. Instead the movie is all about one of the survivors, Alma trying to live up to the responsibility of being worthy of the miracle given to her as protection. The town of Encanto looks to her for hope and guidance, and when the magic is in danger, they turn to her for reassurance. She serves as the matriarch of her family and they follow her orders implicitly, however, this takes a heavy toll as Alma's "toxic perfectionism" creates expectations that are hard to live up to. And despite everyone in the town refusing to mention Bruno, it turns out that he’s not evil, either, just a shut in who’s aware that his power to see the future has caused issues for the community.
  • In Strange World, the main conflict at the end of the film is caused by Pando, the disease that is ravaging the massive monster that is Strange World. As Pando is neither sentient nor a creature, the closest things the film has to a sentient antagonist are the Reapers, which attempt to eat the heroes several times but are eventually revealed to be part of the creature's natural immune system, and Callisto Mal, who is an antagonist for around 5 minutes of the film's runtime when she assumes command of the ship in an attempt to continue the Venture's mission despite Searcher and Ethan's revelation concerning Pando's nature before being shown the light very quickly by the protagonists.
• A Goofy Movie: There is no actual antagonist as the main conflict of the film is Max and Goofy's turbulent relationship with each other. Pete, who is usually the antagonist of the Goof Troop series, is actually portrayed as a Toxic Friend Influence or Well-Intentioned Extremist and isn't shown being antagonistic towards Goofy. In other words, the more jerkish characters like Pete and Principal Mazur had nothing to do with Goofy and Max's turbulent relationship throughout the movie.
• Arthur Christmas: You might assume that Arthur's brother Steve would become the villain, but he doesn't have any real animosity for Arthur, and really just hates how his father has such unreasonably high expectations of him.
• Astro Kid: The movie is a Robinsonade set in space. All the conflict comes from protagonist Willy having to survive on an unknown planet, facing problems like hostile weather, finding enough food, dangerous terrain, and predatory animals that just follow their instincts.
• The Croods: The main threats the Croods face are wild animals and "The End" (implied to be the beginning stages of the post-Pangea continental drift). Making this a "Man Vs. Nature" plot with the major theme being whether to embrace change.
• Elemental (2023): The central conflicts revolve around the worlds Fantastic Racism and Ember trying to figure out what she wants out of life. The crisis in the climax of the film is not the result of any deliberate cause, but a genuine accident.
• Finding Nemo has forces that cause conflict, but no true antagonists. The Inciting Incident is when the eponymous Nemo is kidnapped by a Sydney dentist on a SCUBA dive, for the purpose of giving him (Nemo) as a pet to his (the dentist's) niece. Said niece, Darla, is bad with fish, but characters acknowledge she is accidentally destructive as opposed to intentionally malicious. In contrast, Marlin, Nemo's dad, finds tons of Good Samaritans as he sets out to find Nemo; the worst he ever faces is Blue-and-Orange Morality-style indifference or predators who, for the most part, are Obliviously Evil, and it's balanced by sharks and pelicans who don't even consider eating him (despite being carnivores) when they could help him instead.
  • Its sequel, Finding Dory, likewise doesn't really feature any outright villains aside from a squid who antagonises them for one scene. The conflict comes primarily from Dory's inability to remember things.
• Hotel Transylvania: Transformania: The central conflict of the film is having to find the crystal to reverse the monster transformation before it becomes permanent for Johnny and he loses all semblance of humanity in the process. The closest there is to a villain is Van Helsing's pet guinea pig Gigi, who destroys the hotel at the end of the film.
• Inside Out is about a young girl who suddenly moves across the country, and how her anthropomorphic Emotions try to deal with her subsequent mental breakdown, which is portrayed as a literal breakdown of her Islands of Personality. While there are obstructing and scary forces in her mind, ultimately, they're not connected with the main conflict and are just doing their jobs. There was going to be an antagonist ('Gloom') at one point in development, but ultimately, they decided that it would look too much like they were trivializing depression. That being said, fans have taken to including Jangles the Clown, a being locked in the girl's subconscious, as the film's villain, but he does not directly oppose the Emotions throughout the film and only has a single scene.
• Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch doesn't have a real antagonist. The movie is about Stitch being defective and dying. While Mertle serves as a rival to Lilo who indirectly helps drive Lilo apart from Stitch for a bit, she's really not an antagonist, just her usual, ambiguously racist bully self.
• Onward skirts the line on this one. The main plot is a Race Against the Clock for the brothers to revive their dad before sundown; some characters cause trouble along the way, but the closest thing to a "main villain" is the Curse, which guards the MacGuffin but is seemingly more of a natural force than a character.
• The Peanuts Movie focuses on Charlie Brown trying to overcome his deficiencies and impress the Little Red-haired Girl; fate seems determined to screw him over, but if anything the other characters are actually nicer than in other versions. Technically the B-plot has the Red Baron vs. Snoopy, but that's just in the latter's novel.
  • Most Peanuts movies/specials lack major antagonists, with the bullies from Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown and Why, Charlie Brown, Why? being the few exceptions. The Baron from Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown makes some plans, but doesn't get to carry them out, and there's also Clara from Snoopy, Come Home who holds Snoopy and Woodstock captive for a short time.
• There is no villain in The Polar Express, as the film basically revolves around Hero Boy's wild journey to the North Pole and his Crisis of Faith in believing in Santa Claus. Averted with the tie-in video game, where the Scrooge puppet is the main villain.
• The Scooby-Doo Made-for-TV Movie Scooby Goes Hollywood is notably the only Scooby-Doo show to not have Scooby and the gang going after monsters and other supernatural creatures, actually being disguised criminals or otherwise. The special depicts Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Fred as Animated Actors and the conflict revolves around Scooby and Shaggy aspiring to become movie stars while Fred, Velma, and Daphne have to work around Scooby and Shaggy leaving their show. Though Shaggy can arguably be called the antagonist of the film for constantly manipulating Scooby into not going back to his show, using him to get fame and fortune.
• Toy Story is a story about Woody dealing with his feelings after getting "replaced" with Buzz, and how he feels towards the new toy. There is no main antagonist in the story, most of the conflict is caused by the main characters' interactions. The closest thing to an antagonist is neighbor kid Sid Phillips, who takes toys apart and re-cobbles them, making him a psychotic butcher from the toys' perspective, but he's really just a weird kid and is wholly unaware the toys are sentient. The second, third, and fourth films avert this by having legitimate antagonists.
• There's no major antagonist in The Willoughbys. The Willoughby parents are simply selfish jerks, and the Department of Orphan Services may be scary-looking and authoritative, but their goal is to safely secure orphaned children.
• Yellowbird deals with the protagonist's fight with his fears on a journey to gain confidence, without a single villain to defeat.
• In Your Name, the narrative is driven by the characters' desires and goals, rather than any conflicts arising from any one individual or group's actions.

Films — Live-Action

• Fairly common in any Disaster Movie that doesn't add an extra adversary (many times, a Villainy-Free Villain, Hate Sink, or Designated Villain) for the protagonists to face during the tragedy.
  • Armageddon (1998): One whacking great rock to destroy, but it's not malign in its effect. The moment when the military decide to detonate the bomb early is almost the only antagonism not related to the "destroy the asteroid before it destroys us".
  • The Core: All the story's conflict revolves around the Earth's core going haywire, and no antagonists are involved. You could point a finger at the people behind the experimental earthquake-generator weapon that caused the problem in the first place, but they a) didn't do it on purpose and b) never appear onscreen.
  • Cyclone (1978): Several characters have selfish and abrasive moments (most notably Captain Pichura, his crewman Cachalote, industrialist plane passenger Taylor, and Mickey from the tour boat), but all of them have Pet the Dog moments and aren't concerned just about their own survival, despite what Pichura claims at one point. None of them deliberately do anything that seriously and deliberately endangers the entire group, although a fight over some water between Taylor, Mickey and Cachalote breaks the glass bottom, making the boat sink and causing the passengers to be vulnerable to sharks.
  • Deep Impact: The main conflict is an asteroid about to hit the Earth and there are no antagonists to this end.
  • Poseidon: The bad events are caused by a rogue wave capsizing the boat, and there are no human antagonists.
  • The Towering Inferno. The conflict revolves around trying to save people from a burning skyscraper. You could point to the building's designer as the villain, due to cutting corners on electrical wiring which led to the fire starting in the first place, and he does directly leading to at least one named character's death before he himself is killed, but the danger persists long after he has left the story.
• A fair few Romantic Comedies (and non-comedy romance films) have no antagonist and all the conflict is born out of the two leads either not getting along, a love triangle where nobody is villainous or a series of misunderstandings.
  • Top Hat: The story runs on Dale mistaking Jerry for her best friend's husband, her struggle to overcome her attraction to him, and his attempts to break through her sudden reluctance.
  • Follow the Fleet (1936): The obstacles mostly come from misunderstandings and the characters' own flaws.
  • In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the hero engages a Memory-Wiping Crew to remove the memories of his ex-girlfriend. But as they proceed, the hero relives past memories and starts regretting his decision. The challenge is how he can make the process stop. The closest thing to a villain or antagonist is the technician who is trying to take advantage of the situation by using both of their files to make the female lead fall in love with him. It seems like it might be working, but she intuits something disingenuous and creepy in his recreated romantic moments, gifts, and lines, so she distances herself and then dumps him and moves on (with the hero again).
• Something quite common to the films of Bill Forsyth:
  • Local Hero The idea of a village that stands on an oil field and needs to be bought by an oil company might normally be used to portray the oil company as the Big Bad. However, here the oil company is shown doing simply what they need to do for their business, and the villagers are quite happy to sell up. The main conflict comes between the villagers and local eccentric Ben Knox who owns the local beach and refuses to sell, but no one is portrayed as being in the wrong, and joy of the film comes from the eccentric characters rather than any real conflict
  • Gregory's Girl Gregory falls in love with Dorothy. Susan is in love with Gregory. The whole affair is sorted out with very little trouble and heartache. Again, the joy of the film comes from the eccentric characters.
• All Is Lost: A sailor fights for his life after he's lost at sea.
• Although the Lizard makes his first big screen appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter's English teacher utters a line in the film that embodies the "No Antagonist" spirit and the spirit of every true Spider-Man conflict.
  Miss Ritter: "I had a professor once who liked to tell his students that there were only 10 different plots in all of fiction. Well, I'm here to tell you he was wrong. There is only one: 'Who am I?'"
• The 1994 remake of Angels in the Outfield has no antagonists, although the man who calls the games on the radio for the Angels baseball team is a downright Jerkass, even insulting the owner on air (which gets him fired) and being the only one not celebrating when the Angels, after being assisted by real ones, take the last game of the season on their own to win the pennant.
• Anyone but You has no antagonist (unlike the play it is loosely based on.) Most of the supporting cast are actively trying to get Ben and Bea together and while Bea's parents are pushy about her personal and romantic life they are still ultimately depicted as sympathetic. Rather the conflict comes from miscommunications between Ben and Bea and lingering hurt feelings and nervousness between them.
• Apollo 13. Fighting to survive aboard a badly damaged spacecraft.
• Benny & Joon: All the characters do what they do because they love Joon, and want to help her through her schizophrenia. It's just sometimes, they do jerky things because they think it's the best option, like Benny throwing Sam out because he's worried that Joon will be taken advantage of in an adult relationship, or Sam taking Joon on the bus, not realizing that the stress would send her into a crisis.
• Black Swan: ...Maybe. Nina certainly sees Lily as an antagonist who's trying to usurp the lead role in the ballet, but the film refuses to commit one way or the other.
• Booksmart: Molly and Amy are trying to get to the Wild Teen Party, and no one is trying to stop them. The closest things to antagonists are classmates who talk about Molly behind her back early on, but when they encounter those same classmates later, they end up being thrilled to so see them coming to the party and finally letting loose. They also encounter an actual serial killer (not knowing it at the time), but he's actually very reasonable (given the situation) and gives the girls pretty good advice.
  • Molly shows shades of being antagonistic, but only because Amy is a doormat who goes along with whatever Molly wants. However, when Amy invokes their "one-use-per-year 'magic word'", when she wants to leave the party, Molly reveals her true colours by refusing, despite using it herself in order to get Amy to the party in the first place.
• Cast Away has a man struggling to survive on a Deserted Island and return to civilization. After he makes it back, he then has to deal with the fact that life has moved on without him while he was away.
• Crazy, Stupid, Love: Every character is sympathetic on some level. Surprisingly, that even includes David, the man who Emily had an affair with.
• The Dish is about the staff of the Parkes radio telescope and their role in receiving the Apollo 11 TV signal. The closest thing to an antagonist is the wind, which is blowing so hard that moving the dish to receive the signal would be dangerous.
• There is no antagonist in the Disney movie The Horse In The Gray Flannel Suit, which follows ad executive Fred Bolton using his daughter Helen's show horse as a mascot for a pharmaceutical sales campaign. Fred means well and lets Helen stop as soon as she gets uncomfortable with it (although another rider, Helen's trainer Susie, soon volunteers). The drug company owner does threaten to fire Fred when the campaign seems to be failing, but only in one scene, and he's quick to congratulate Fred and reward his successes later on. A hinted romantic rival for Susie's affections (her ex-fiancé) agrees that they are Better as Friends. And the reigning champion Susie competes against is a remarkably good sport no matter how well she's doing against him.
• The Seahawks general manager Tom Michaels in Draft Day is the character closest to an antagonist. However, he was just doing business. The real conflict in this movie is about making the right choices in a stressful time.
• Early in the Sylvester Stallone racing movie Driven, Til Schweiger's character initially comes across as the arrogant antagonist you'd expect in every sports movie, but quickly demonstrates that he's actually a good man and Worthy Opponent, voluntarily leaving a race and risking his life to save a fellow racer after a crash.
• Dumplin': Despite the beauty pageant setting, this trope is in play. The drama of the movie comes from Willow's insecurities, grieving her Parental Substitute aunt's death and her troubled relationship with her mother. Although there are a few nameless bullies, they never factor into the plot and the girls in the competition, even the one interested in Willow's Love Interest and the favorite to win, rarely interact with her and when they do are usually nice and cordial rather than Alpha Bitches.
• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain doesn't have any bad guys. The real problems are caused by the British government deciding that a mountain is at least 1,000 feet and sending two cartographers to Ffynon Garw in 1917, a time when the village is especially unready to have their "first mountain in Wales" downgraded to a mere hill. The worst two characters are the senior cartographer and the local schoolmaster, but they don't do anything to interfere with raising the height; they're simply indifferent to the community's feelings.
• In Father of the Bride titular father Stanley has to deal with his daughter Kay getting married and his feelings of empty nest syndrome and separation anxiety. But there isn't a bad guy.
• Forrest Gump: With the possible exception of the Viet Cong, no antagonists. Forrest meets quite a few jerks, but none are ever harmful to him in any lasting way. A few of them even inadvertently help him in his life's journey to accidental greatness.
• Four Sisters and a Wedding: The closest thing the film has to a villain is the rich, overbearing Bayags, but even they're more of parodies of standard Filipino rich villains, only really figure into Teddie's arc, and are still just looking out for their daughter. Much of the conflict is driven by the sisters' issues.
• Gravity: Two astronauts fight for their lives after they're stranded in space. Space debris is the main opposing force, but it isn't a character.
• Groundhog Day: A flawed man is trapped in a time loop, and goes through the same day all over again indefinitely until he learns to become a better person. The film has no villain, since Phil is at worst a Jerkass Anti-Hero, and the time loop is simply an unexplained event.
• A Hard Day's Night is a satirical look at The Beatles' life touring. The nearest thing there is to an antagonist are the local police who wrongly arrest Ringo for "disturbing the peace" during his "parade".
• Henry & June is character driven. Each individual is portrayed as complex, with their own flaws and strengths. While June is very unstable, she is a catalyst and not a villain; and the other characters do their own share of deceptive, self-serving things anyway.
• her is about a man who falls in love with an operating system. The man doesn't have a great relationship with his ex-wife, but she's not an antagonist.
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The Thompsons are obnoxious neighbors, but never actually do anything wrong, and once they realize the danger the kids are in, are equally committed to saving them. In the end, the families seem to have become friends. The scorpion is a genuine threat, but it isn't malicious, just an animal driven by instinct.
• Into the Wild: The main theme of the story is the main character's escape from society and there are no antagonists.
• Juno: A classic example shown in a coming-of-age drama.
• Larry Clark's 1995 indie film Kids is a mixed example. On the one hand, it mostly just follows the dissolute lives of teenage Free-Range Children roaming the streets of New York City. They concern themselves with hooking up, smoking weed, skateboarding, and being mostly aimless. The closest to a conflict-based antagonist the delinquents meet is an unnamed man in Central Park who asks for an "excuse me" from one skateboarder and gets mob beaten by the other park punks. On the other hand, one of the subplots is a girl discovering that the boy who ditched her after taking her virginity (the only guy she's ever slept with) gave her HIV. She spends the movie trying to track him down (both to hold him accountable and to warn him that he's got the disease). His subplot is about how he loves unprotected sex with (very young) virgins. The Downer Ending has her never quite catch up to him, so there's no direct conflict/confrontation between them, but his friend does Date Rape her in a drugged and barely conscious state (possibly infecting himself in the process)
• Leave No Trace revolves around Will's pain and daughter Tom's growing differences with him, but all the film's major characters are well-meaning.
• Locke is about the main character managing the fall-out of a bad decision he'd made, which hit at the worst possible time. He fights with his bosses, but recognizes that what they're doing is reasonable, from their own perspective. Locke, himself, is really the only one who did anything clearly wrong, and fully accepts his own responsibility.
• Lost Signal. Drugged teenagers wander around the forest during a blizzard.
• Love Bites: At first it seems like the conflict will be Jake's battle with the handsome bloodsucking Count, but it turns out the latter is Good All Along and the film goes full romance.
• The Martian is about a stranded astronaut trying to survive the environment of Mars, while literally the entire planet Earth comes together to try to get him home. There are conflicts concerning the best way to save him, but we don't see anyone who isn't fully committed to the same goal.
• Mary Poppins has no villain, unless you count Dawes Sr. who is at worst a grumpy old banker and fires George Banks for the chaos Michael unintentionally caused in the bank (although he has a rather sadistic-looking smile on his face as this happens). George is a bit neglectful and severe as a father, but not villainous.
• The first My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Toula's dad Gus comes closest, but the worst thing he does is express some disappointment that Ian isn't Greek. Toula and her mother take only a short time to talk Gus into it by suggesting the whole thing was his idea, and he's fully on board come the wedding day, which sees him buy Toula and Ian a house. Albeit one right next to Gus' house, but still, a house. The conflict of the movie is more about the culture clash between American and Greek culture than it is between any two people.
• My Cousin Vinny: Judge Haller perhaps acts as an antagonist, but there's certainly no true villain in the movie. Everyone, including the judge and prosecutor, are working for justice according to the best information they have. When it becomes clear the boys are innocent, the prosecutor immediately drops the charges. Of course there are the people who actually killed the clerk and are letting two innocents take the fall, but they don't appear in person.
• My Dinner with Andre. Two main characters, one or two minor ones, and no conflict beyond argument. The whole thing is about two people sitting down and talking over dinner.
• The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure: the titular Oogieloves lost their balloons for their pillow's birthday party. There is no villain or anything of substance for that matter.
• Parenthood: Nope, no antagonists; the conflict stems from the various problems the Buckman family have to deal with. To name an example, Gil and Karen are worried about their eldest son and are uncertain if they could take care of another baby. To name another example, Susan and Nathan are in trouble because Susan wants another baby, but Nathan refuses because he's busy educating their 3-year-old daughter Patty to comedic extremes.
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Neal and Del are flawed characters who get on each other's nerves, but neither one is a villain. The nearest thing there is to an antagonist is the travel industry itself.
• Requiem for a Dream: The story is centered around several characters' drug addictions, so no antagonist is present. One or two drug dealers appear in a few scenes, but they are not the cause of the main characters' woes, only profiting off it.
• Rush: two Formula 1 drivers with opposing worldviews are pitted against each other - and both protagonists of the story. The closest thing qualifying as an antagonist is the weather.
• The Santa Clause is about a Workaholic who accidentally becomes the new Santa Claus, and how this allows him to grow closer to his neglected son. His ex-wife and her new husband initially appear to be antagonists, trying to keep the two of them apart, but this is ultimately subverted, as a) they genuinely have the kid's interests at heart and b) when they realize the truth, they're happy to build a healthy co-parenting relationship. The Santa Clause 2' and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause do have straight-up villains, however.
• The rom-com/sci-fi movie About Time avoids the usual Love Triangle plot. Instead it has the protagonist battle his own life decisions via Reset Button.
• The Starfighters was really an advertisement for a series of fighter planes shot as a movie. The movie has almost no conflict whatsoever. The closest the film has to an antagonist is the Congressman, whose son is a part of the Starfighter project against his wishes, but he never does anything other than call his son or the CO to try to talk them into reassigning him.
• Uniquely for a Star Trek film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home lacks a Big Bad. The mysterious probe is huge and causes massive environmental chaos, but can't quite be considered malevolent and may not even be sentient. There's some mildly antagonistic humans in the past (like the US Military guys who are suspicious about the Russian-accented Chekhov asking everyone he meets where to find the top-secret nuclear vessels) and a group of whalers who try to harpoon George and Gracie in the climax, but they're not developed as villains and clearly pose no real threat to the protagonists. A joke among fans is that the true villain of the movie is the obnoxious punk with the ghetto-blaster who Spock nerve-pinches on the bus.
• In The Straight Story, every character who appears in the film is a good person in some sense of the word. The closest we ever get is the fact that there are some people who try to talk Alvin out of the journey, and even then they're just concerned for his safety.
• Summer Lovers: Michael and Cathy (Daryl Hannah) are on a vacation in Greece. Michael becomes interested in Lina. They become a trio. It doesn't get much deeper than that.
• Teen Witch: The protagonist and eponymous witch, Louise Miller, has no opponents throughout the movie. The main conflict is that she has the ability to make anything she wants come to pass. So all she has to do is wish to be the most popular girl (which she does) and that gets the attention of the most popular boy.
• That Thing You Do!, in which writer/director Tom Hanks's explicit ethos when writing the movie was "no bad guys in my movie". While the band eventually splits and lead singer Jimmy dumps his girlfriend, it's born more out of clashing personalities and goals than outright villainy or antagonism. Even both of the band's managers are on the up-and-up with them, even though Mr. White's ideology of touring and marketing goes against Jimmy's desire to make a follow-up record.
• The Tree of Life is an impressionistic Coming of Age Story with spiritual overtones. There is a great deal of tension with the protagonist's father, but he is far from a villain. He is portrayed as flawed but sympathetic and genuinely cares for his family. His flaws serve as more of an Aesop about the film's theme of nature vs grace.
• Up in the Air: Grey-and-Gray Morality story about George Clooney teaching Anna Kendrick how to lay people off, among other events.
• They Look Like People: Wyatt's paranoia over "monsters" impersonating people is all in his mind. The conflict is only in the two protagonists overcoming their flaws: delusions and crippling insecurity.
• Thirteen Lives is a Docudrama, Ripped from the Headlines, about a team of divers and other people working to rescue a group of kids trapped in the depths of a flooded cave. Apart from a little bit of friction between different groups of divers early on, the nearest thing to an antagonist is the looming monsoon season.
• Despite the extensive roster of villains in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, none of said villains appear in We Wish You a Turtle Christmas, and the conflict is instead focused around the turtles needing to find a gift for Splinter in time for Christmas.
• In A Woman of Paris, the source of conflict is Marie's inability to choose between her rich Sugar Daddy and her poor former boyfriend. The sugar daddy really doesn't care and is perfectly willing to get another girlfriend if she wants to break up.
• Zero Hour! (1957) and Airplane! deal with the passengers of the plane (pilot included) succumbing to a virus, as well as one of the few passengers on board who didn't catch the virus having to land the plane on his own, despite not having flown one for years as well as previously flying a different model.

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