Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

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

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