| KARATEKID | 1984 movie with the main antagonist Sensei John Kreese, with "The" |
| SENSEI | John Kreese in "The Karate Kid," for example |
| GHOSTBUSTERS | 1984 movie with the line "I've been slimed" |
| REPOMAN | 1984 movie with the tag line "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" |
| TERMINATOR | 1984 movie with a 100 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with "The" |
| PASSAGE | A _______ to India (1984 movie with Alec Guinness) |
| BIFF | Forename of the main antagonist in the Back to the Future films (4) |
| MADDOG | Nickname of Buford Tannen, the main antagonist of the film Back to the Future Part III (3,3) |
| SITH | The main antagonist group in the Star Wars franchise |
| BOWSER | The main antagonist in the Super Mario video games (6) |
| SNOW | Coriolanus ___, ruler of Panem and the main antagonist in The Hunger Games series of novels |
| NEOCORTEX | Doctor ____ is the main antagonist of the Crash Bandicoot video games |
| IAGO | The main antagonist in the Shakespeare play Othello (4) |
| MONICA | Bellucci, Italian actress who played the main antagonist in the 2024 film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (6) |
| MARITIME | Concerned with the main period after the start of spring, perhaps |
| TOLLBOOTH | The Phantom ___, children's book with the main character Milo (9) |
| CESAREBORGIA | Italian cardinal and mercenary leader, the main antagonist in the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood |
| DOUGRAYSCOTT | Actor who played the main antagonist in the 2000 action spy film Mission: Impossible II (7,5) |
| MALVOLIO | The main antagonist in Twelfth Night (8) |
| PINKIE | Nickname of the main antagonist in Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock |
