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