Tropescilloscope: Beware the Nice Ones

Make this Nice Guy angry and they'll retaliate. Hard. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Mighty Whitey Brick Joke The X of Y Hero Antagonist Public Domain Feature Films Ms. Fanservice Grey and Gray Morality Unwitting Instigator of Doom French Films Very Loosely Based on a True Story Rasputinian Death Rule of Three Canon Foreigner Meaningful Background Event Bad Boss Smoking Is Cool Film Noir Zombie Stories The Big Guy Catapult Nightmare Crapsack World Reckless Gun Usage Meet Cute Historical-Domain Character Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Ditz Daddy's Girl A Father to His Men Motor Mouth Fatal Flaw Biopic The '60s No Name Given Killed Mid-Sentence Gorn Drill Sergeant Nasty Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dissonant Serenity Big "NO!" Yandere Ghost Fiction Extremely Short Timespan Improbable Weapon User Reasonable Authority Figure Oh, Crap! 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Guy Obstructive Bureaucrat Not Quite Dead Creepy Child Once More, with Clarity! 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Corrupt Corporate Executive As You Know Death by Sex Historical Villain Upgrade Red Herring Real Life Domestic Abuse Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Black Comedy Pretty in Mink One-Man Army Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Manly Tears Blackmail Irony More Dakka Artistic License – Military Deconstruction Outrun the Fireball Dirty Old Man The Film of the Book Decoy Protagonist I Have Your Wife The Hero Dies Epic Fail The Power of Love Protagonist Title Humiliation Conga Non-Indicative Name The Atoner Training Montage Flashback Hong Kong Films Only in It for the Money Evil Sounds Deep Moment Killer Chiaroscuro Mama Bear Mr. Exposition Didn't Think This Through Crazy Jealous Guy Shown Their Work Christmas Movies Index Fish out of Water All for Nothing Damsel in Distress Costume Porn Evil vs. Evil Pay Evil unto Evil Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Brute Evil Brit Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Psychological Thriller Cold-Blooded Torture My Beloved Smother Adaptational Villainy Hoist by His Own Petard Mind Screw Comically Missing the Point The Stinger Every Car Is a Pinto Sequel Escalation Country Matters Hypocritical Humor Match Cut Kick the Dog Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Meaningful Name Mugging the Monster Throwing Your Sword Always Works Eiffel Tower Effect Loads and Loads of Characters Film Series Villain Song Bring My Brown Pants Bare Your Midriff Almost Kiss Roaring Rampage of Revenge Disney Death Broken Bird Bittersweet Ending Dies Wide Open Shell-Shocked Veteran Action Genre Not Using the "Z" Word The Mafia British Films Slasher Movie Anachronic Order Superhero Calling the Old Man Out German Films This Is Gonna Suck Shut Up, Hannibal! Heroic Sacrifice Defiant to the End N-Word Privileges Up to Eleven Pre-Mortem One-Liner You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Real Life Writes the Plot Fate Worse than Death Slap-Slap-Kiss Improbable Aiming Skills Bolivian Army Ending Same Language Dub You Have Failed Me Exact Words Vampire Fiction Bi the Way No-Sell Gory Discretion Shot Artistic License – Law Four-Temperament Ensemble And Starring Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Leaning on the Fourth Wall Sassy Black Woman Rousing Speech Retirony Knife Nut Red Right Hand Villain Ball Idiot Ball Ascended Extra Demonic Possession Foil Gainax Ending Mooks Gone Horribly Right Artistic License – History Death by Adaptation Honor Before Reason Truth in Television Funny Background Event Body Horror Insane Troll Logic I Need a Freaking Drink Combat Pragmatist Recycled IN SPACE! Ambiguous Disorder Guns Akimbo Dramatic Irony Be Careful What You Wish For Japanese Films Race Against the Clock The Bad Guy Wins Dull Surprise Evil Plan Narrator Adaptational Heroism Vomit Discretion Shot Covers Always Lie Heroic BSoD Knight Templar Our Zombies Are Different Due to the Dead Determinator Silent Movie Vacation Films Music Stories The Smurfette Principle Broken Aesop Ominous Latin Chanting Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mexican Standoff Credits Gag Disproportionate Retribution Aww, Look! 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Rule of Cool Never Trust a Trailer Martial Arts Movie Stealth Hi/Bye Major Injury Underreaction Sexy Discretion Shot "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Historical Hero Upgrade Hell Is That Noise The Cavalry Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Woman Scorned Fun with Acronyms Adaptational Attractiveness Drowning My Sorrows It Will Never Catch On The Bully Agony of the Feet Stealth Pun No Ending Visual Pun Spiteful Spit Eagleland Car Fu Better to Die than Be Killed Big Damn Heroes Artistic License – Geography Informed Ability Bond One-Liner Straight Gay Jerkass Has a Point Self-Deprecation Department of Redundancy Department Fat Bastard Rated M for Manly Adults Are Useless Action Prologue Psychopathic Manchild Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Artistic License – Gun Safety Setting Update Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Scenery Gorn Intergenerational Friendship Curse Cut Short Soundtrack Dissonance Tranquil Fury Whole Plot Reference Karmic Death Cain and Abel Shoot the Shaggy Dog Diabolus ex Machina Drives Like Crazy Freeze-Frame Bonus Expository Hairstyle Change Eureka Moment Totally Radical