Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

A character who commits horrid acts for good causes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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