Tropescilloscope: Beware the Nice Ones

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

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Arch-Enemy Epic Fail Precision F-Strike Adaptation Distillation Dressing as the Enemy Flashback May–December Romance Accidental Misnaming Deadpan Snarker Animal Title Index An Aesop Kick the Son of a Bitch Shout-Out Black Comedy Music Stories Off-into-the-Distance Ending Instant Death Bullet Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bring My Brown Pants Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Load Playing Gertrude Stealth Hi/Bye The Un-Reveal Ripped from the Headlines The Alcoholic Title Drop Retired Badass Auto Erotica Shower Scene Pay Evil unto Evil Tranquil Fury Face–Heel Turn Missing Mom Every Car Is a Pinto Not So Stoic She Cleans Up Nicely Captain Ersatz The Voiceless Plucky Comic Relief Captain Obvious Real Life Writes the Plot Time Skip No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bullying a Dragon Eagleland Film Noir Index Creepy Child Dramatic Gun Cock Made of Iron Honor Before Reason Bavarian Fire Drill Meaningful Echo Bottomless Magazines '80s Hair Alas, Poor Villain Humans Are Bastards The Stoic Death by Sex Fainting Cool Car Break the Cutie An Arm and a Leg Attempted Rape Men Are the Expendable Gender Scenery Porn Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bad "Bad Acting" All There in the Manual Establishing Character Moment True Companions Hair-Trigger Temper Immune to Bullets Heroic BSoD Unspoken Plan Guarantee Jitter Cam As Himself Neck Lift The Quiet One Interrupted Suicide Only Sane Man Drives Like Crazy Monumental Damage Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Is Serious Business Cool Old Lady Setting Update Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fanservice Extra Extreme Doormat Artistic License – Biology Book-Ends Guile Hero Insult Backfire Cloudcuckoolander Gold Digger French Films Sealed Evil in a Can Would Hurt a Child The Faceless Improvised Weapon Arranged Marriage Drill Sergeant Nasty Jerkass Has a Point Important Haircut Blackmail Character Development Once More, with Clarity! Adaptational Attractiveness Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Affably Evil Horror Films There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dark Reprise Woman in White Overprotective Dad Same Language Dub Stylistic Suck Crucified Hero Shot Police are Useless Manchild Evil Is Petty Cluster F-Bomb Plot Hole Offscreen Teleportation Deconstruction Annoying Younger Sibling Spell My Name with an "S" Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Mythology Gag My Greatest Failure Dual Wielding Brutal Honesty Epic Movie Imagine Spot Kubrick Stare Scare Chord Reasonable Authority Figure Moment Killer Asshole Victim Deus ex Machina Light Is Not Good Breaking the Fourth Wall Pretty in Mink Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas War Is Hell Chiaroscuro Bowdlerise Anyone Can Die As the Good Book Says... Big "NO!" Ambiguously Gay Parental Neglect Daylight Horror Broken Pedestal It's All About Me What You Are in the Dark Totally Radical I'm a Humanitarian Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Lampshade Hanging Anguished Declaration of Love NO INDOOR VOICE Actually Pretty Funny Beware the Nice Ones "Shaggy Dog" Story Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Action Girl Only Known by Their Nickname Dramatic Irony Implacable Man Action Genre Fantasy Films I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Made of Explodium The Dragon Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Nice Hat Gory Discretion Shot Love at First Sight Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Action Prologue Kill 'em All Dwindling Party Posthumous Character Mr. Fanservice Unwitting Instigator of Doom Defiant to the End Suddenly SHOUTING! Unusual Euphemism Heel–Face Turn Those Two Bad Guys Dirty Old Man Empathic Environment Car Fu Abhorrent Admirer Biopic Curse Cut Short Evil Plan Fatal Family Photo Accidental Murder Crapsack World Cold-Blooded Torture In the Back Department of Redundancy Department Silent Movie Chewing the Scenery Danny Peary Cult Movies List Evil Is Hammy Informed Ability Shoot the Shaggy Dog Badass Longcoat Science Fiction Films Nothing Is Scarier La Résistance Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Silence Is Golden Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie It Will Never Catch On Central Theme Mexican Standoff Getting Crap Past the Radar Visual Pun Fan Disservice Sinister Minister Stealth Pun In Name Only Brainless Beauty Large Ham Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sexy Discretion Shot Fourth Date Marriage The Chick Never My Fault Defrosting Ice Queen Belligerent Sexual Tension Unreliable Narrator After the End The Chessmaster Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Closed Circle Evil Counterpart Cool Guns Hero of Another Story Drugs Are Bad You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Smug Snake Action Survivor Celebrity Paradox Despair Event Horizon Training Montage Say My Name Demoted to Extra Death by Irony Camera Abuse Twist Ending Skewed Priorities Driven to Suicide Eureka Moment Death Glare Combat Pragmatist Beard of Evil Villainous Breakdown Superhero Dissonant Serenity Obfuscating Stupidity Failed a Spot Check Drowning My Sorrows Death of a Child Frame-Up The Bad Guy Wins Victoria's Secret Compartment Properly Paranoid Cool Shades Mundane Made Awesome Does Not Like Shoes Leave the Camera Running Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Composite Character Eye Scream Worthy Opponent Fate Worse than Death Due to the Dead Death by Adaptation Beta Couple Damsel in Distress Does This Remind You of Anything? A Minor Kidroduction Demonic Possession Blood Knight The Hero Dies Foil The Oner Oh, Crap! Gratuitous English Dies Wide Open Ungrateful Bastard Dumb Blonde Berserk Button Took a Level in Badass Slasher Movie Chekhov's Skill Let's Get Dangerous! Ship Tease Hollywood Law Cain and Abel Names to Run Away from Really Fast Would Hit a Girl The Power of Love Cowboy Cop The X of Y The Cameo Room Full of Crazy No Antagonist As Long as It Sounds Foreign Riddle for the Ages Australian Movies Death Seeker Adaptational Badass Get Out! Historical In-Joke The '80s Sci-Fi Horror Older Than They Look Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Ditz Call-Forward Red Shirt Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Boom, Headshot! It's Personal Random Events Plot Diabolus ex Machina Outrun the Fireball Too Dumb to Live Darkest Hour What Happened to the Mouse? Dirty Coward Broken Aesop It Can Think Manly Tears Killed Mid-Sentence Not What It Looks Like Toplessness from the Back The Smurfette Principle One Steve Limit Artistic License – Law Badass Boast Romantic False Lead Police Brutality Contrived Coincidence Christmas Movies Index Poor Communication Kills Ax-Crazy Knife Nut Casting Gag Psycho for Hire Catch-Phrase Five-Man Band Morality Pet Everyone Has Standards Pretty Little Headshots Meaningful Background Event Not Using the "Z" Word The Dog Bites Back Bilingual Bonus Those Wacky Nazis Fun with Acronyms Peek-a-Boo Corpse Novelization Trailers Always Spoil Wham Line Documentary Adults Are Useless Maybe Ever After Sports Stories Grey and Gray Morality Insistent Terminology Villain Song Villain Ball Bond One-Liner The Ace Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Never Trust a Trailer Adult Fear Disguised in Drag Reality Has No Subtitles Pyrrhic Victory Age Lift Slap-Slap-Kiss Bland-Name Product Rule of Three Woman Scorned Really Gets Around Italian Films One-Man Army Reality Is Unrealistic Sequel Escalation Better to Die than Be Killed Chekhov's Gunman One-Word Title Gilligan Cut Broken Bird Ironic Echo All for Nothing Fanservice Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Rated M for Manly Gainax Ending Historical-Domain Character Developing Doomed Characters Major Injury Underreaction Cat Fight Becoming the Mask Deliberately Monochrome Bad Boss Framing Device Knight Templar An Axe to Grind Stepford Smiler Translation Convention Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Whole Plot Reference Re-Cut Refuge in Audacity Smoking Is Cool Cool Old Guy Video Credits British Films timeperiod Psychological Thriller Psychopathic Manchild Reality Ensues Love Triangle Stock Footage Betty and Veronica Dull Surprise More Dakka Unusually Uninteresting Sight Took a Level in Jerkass Sanity Slippage Nice Guy Funny Foreigner Yandere Foregone Conclusion Adaptation Name Change Laser-Guided Karma Mistaken for Gay "The Reason You Suck" Speech Four-Temperament Ensemble Dogged Nice Guy Fingore Improbable Aiming Skills A.I. 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Intrepid Reporter You Killed My Father Hell Is That Noise Redemption Equals Death Mystery and Detective Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Country Matters Big Applesauce Destination Defenestration Sequel Hook Needs Wiki Magic Love Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Adaptation Expansion Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Faux Affably Evil Evil vs. Evil Fatal Flaw Artistic License – Physics Brick Joke Pragmatic Adaptation Batman Gambit Only in It for the Money Politically Incorrect Villain Fat Bastard Make It Look Like an Accident Sacrificial Lion The Sociopath Paper-Thin Disguise Hong Kong Films Black Dude Dies First Your Head A-Splode And I Must Scream Meet Cute Taking You with Me Hoist by His Own Petard Rule of Funny Married to the Job Jerk Jock Roger Ebert: Great Movies List For Want of a Nail Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil And the Adventure Continues Villain with Good Publicity Sir Swears-a-Lot Lighter and Softer Rape as Drama Protagonist Title Our Zombies Are Different Very Loosely Based on a True Story Creator Cameo Wham Shot Race Lift Bury Your Gays Overly Long Gag How We Got Here Greater-Scope Villain The Big Guy Hooker with a Heart of Gold Not So Above It All Costume Porn Serial Killer Left the Background Music On Even Evil Has Standards Truth in Television The Brute The Smart Guy Genre Savvy Sadistic Choice The Musical Dark and Troubled Past Fish out of Water Papa Wolf Flipping the Bird Happily Married Corrupt Corporate Executive Meaningful Name The Starscream Almost Kiss Daddy's Girl Mind Screw Half the Man He Used to Be The Casanova All Men Are Perverts Self-Deprecation Evil Sounds Deep Chekhov's Gun Thriller Bloody Hilarious Screw the Rules, I Have Money! You Have Failed Me Big-Bad Ensemble Author Appeal Deal with the Devil Anachronism Stew The Atoner Jump Scare Wrong Genre Savvy "Where Are They Now?" 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