Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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