Tropescilloscope: Beware the Nice Ones

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

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