Tropescilloscope: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Noble action brings bad consequences. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Or Is It? 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Historical Villain Upgrade Ship Tease Closed Circle And I Must Scream Epic Fail Foreshadowing Sanity Slippage Noodle Incident Narrator Put on a Bus Match Cut Drives Like Crazy Police are Useless Combat Pragmatist Animated Credits Opening Unresolved Sexual Tension For the Evulz Contrived Coincidence Room Full of Crazy Mexican Standoff Straight Gay What the Hell, Hero? Ominous Latin Chanting Evil Laugh Fire-Forged Friends Let's Get Dangerous! 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