Tropescilloscope: Beware the Nice Ones

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

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