Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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