Tropescilloscope: Beware the Nice Ones

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

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