Tropescilloscope: Beware the Nice Ones

Make this Nice Guy angry and they'll retaliate. Hard. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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