Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

A character is heroic in nature, but still rather intolerable. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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