Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

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

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