Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

A character is heroic in nature, but still rather intolerable. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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