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)

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