Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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