Tropescilloscope: Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!

Character follows their conscience at the expense of the laws or their instructions. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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