Tropescilloscope: The Atoner

Former bad guy spends story making up for the things he did. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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