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