Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

A character is heroic in nature, but still rather intolerable. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Paper-Thin Disguise Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Wham Shot Despair Event Horizon In Name Only Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Ghost Russian Films Big Bad Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Kick the Son of a Bitch Obviously Evil Black and Gray Morality Silent Movie Five-Man Band Christmas Movies Index Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Retcon Tap on the Head Dark and Troubled Past Armor-Piercing Question Big Fancy House Insult Backfire Reckless Gun Usage The Voiceless Vomit Indiscretion Shot Adaptation Expansion What the Hell, Hero? Chekhov's Gunman Race Against the Clock Spell My Name with an "S" Cool Guns Action Girl Dramatic Gun Cock Facial Horror Romantic Comedy Deliberately Monochrome Pragmatic Adaptation Bare Your Midriff Names to Run Away from Really Fast Half the Man He Used to Be Thriller Sassy Black Woman Needs Wiki Magic Love Film Noir Funny Foreigner Police are Useless Rasputinian Death Martial Arts Movie In Medias Res Deus ex Machina Shown Their Work Parental Abandonment Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Bad Guy Wins Taking the Bullet Evil Sounds Deep Gone Horribly Right Anti-Villain Brutal Honesty Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Heroes Want Redheads Affectionate Parody An Arm and a Leg Adaptational Heroism Same Language Dub Well-Intentioned Extremist Big Damn Heroes Fire-Forged Friends Coming-of-Age Story folderlabel Canon Foreigner Rule of Cool Broken Pedestal No Antagonist Ax-Crazy Superhero Action Genre No Good Deed Goes Unpunished What You Are in the Dark Cool Old Lady Epic Movie Artistic License – Geography Author Appeal Bullying a Dragon Book-Ends Drives Like Crazy Genre Shift Television Movie Index Foil Grey and Gray Morality Have a Gay Old Time Adorkable In the Back Villain Protagonist Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Pragmatic Villainy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Getting Crap Past the Radar Those Wacky Nazis Spiritual Successor Room Full of Crazy Smug Snake Character Development This Is Gonna Suck Evil-Detecting Dog For the Evulz Light Is Not Good The '90s Toplessness from the Back World of Ham Calling the Old Man Out Retired Badass Intrepid Reporter The Stoner Adaptational Badass Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Rule of Symbolism Deal with the Devil La Résistance The Stoic Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Obstructive Bureaucrat Spiteful Spit No OSHA Compliance The Musical Hypocrite Psycho for Hire Insane Troll Logic Music Stories Green-Eyed Monster Let's Get Dangerous! 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Training Montage Straight Gay Hope Spot Vomit Discretion Shot May–December Romance All Men Are Perverts Fainting Psychopathic Manchild Outrun the Fireball Hair-Trigger Temper Butt-Monkey NO INDOOR VOICE Scary Black Man Awesome, but Impractical Only Sane Man Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Contrived Coincidence Product Placement Flashback Serial Killer Animal Title Index Moment Killer Cassandra Truth Wretched Hive Evil Brit Eldritch Abomination Spared by the Adaptation Red Shirt I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Kill 'em All Drill Sergeant Nasty Manchild Twist Ending Evil Laugh Tranquil Fury Lighter and Softer Deconstruction Author Avatar Adults Are Useless Exactly What It Says on the Tin Mercy Kill Fan Disservice Bond Villain Stupidity Eiffel Tower Effect A Date with Rosie Palms Adult Fear Redemption Equals Death Important Haircut Bad Boss Cool Shades Take That! Creative Closing Credits Dissonant Serenity Dropped a Bridge on Him Reality Is Unrealistic The Big Guy Accidental Misnaming Never Found the Body Dwindling Party 20 Minutes into the Future Jerkass Last-Name Basis Shipper on Deck Stylistic Suck Grievous Bottley Harm Beware the Nice Ones Cowboy Cop As You Know Age Lift Creator Cameo Unresolved Sexual Tension Improbable Weapon User Broken Bird All There in the Manual Fate Worse than Death Mama Bear Large Ham Line-of-Sight Name The Alleged Car Happily Married Never Trust a Trailer Man on Fire Not Even Bothering with the Accent And I Must Scream Japanese Films Military and Warfare Films Roaring Rampage of Revenge Disproportionate Retribution Parental Incest Plucky Comic Relief Artistic License – Law All for Nothing Sadistic Choice Sinister Minister Red Eyes, Take Warning Deadpan Snarker Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Blackmail Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is a Crapshoot Star-Crossed Lovers Instant Death Bullet Fatal Flaw Sacrificial Lion Slashed Throat Mexican Standoff Improvised Weapon Bait-and-Switch Bittersweet Ending Naïve Newcomer Storming the Castle Offscreen Moment of Awesome And the Adventure Continues The Place Hypocritical Humor Arch-Enemy Up to Eleven Noodle Incident Badass Grandpa Woman Scorned Artistic License – History Kubrick Stare Gilligan Cut Insistent Terminology You Have Outlived Your Usefulness My Beloved Smother Eagleland Irony Stealth Hi/Bye Aww, Look! 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Love at First Sight War Is Hell Our Zombies Are Different Double Entendre Damsel in Distress Mugging the Monster Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Dying Moment of Awesome Villainous Breakdown Ambiguous Disorder Loophole Abuse Setting Update Genre Throwback Bad "Bad Acting" Death by Irony Visual Pun Catapult Nightmare Gainax Ending Spanner in the Works Face–Heel Turn Monumental Damage Villain Ball Defrosting Ice Queen Random Events Plot The '50s Missing Mom Made of Iron Cool Old Guy Those Two Guys The Sociopath Evil Counterpart Time Skip Meaningful Name Attempted Rape Male Frontal Nudity Sir Swears-a-Lot Kill It with Fire Back from the Dead Mighty Whitey Rule of Three Dumb Blonde Once More, with Clarity! Heel–Face Turn Ungrateful Bastard Brother–Sister Incest Frame-Up One-Man Army Freudian Excuse Bolivian Army Ending Cool Car Those Two Bad Guys Funny Background Event I Have Your Wife Becoming the Mask Sequel Hook Bound and Gagged Conspicuous CG Whole Plot Reference Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Rewatch Bonus Fingore Daddy's Girl Idiot Ball Hero of Another Story Never My Fault Corrupt Corporate Executive Blood from the Mouth Demoted to Extra Good Is Not Nice Scenery Gorn Establishing Character Moment He Knows Too Much Bavarian Fire Drill Big "NO!" Serious Business Badass Normal Fun with Acronyms Humiliation Conga Hidden Depths Determinator aka: The Determinator Heterosexual Life-Partners No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Foreshadowing Show Within a Show Not So Above It All Disappeared Dad Slasher Movie Advertised Extra Composite Character Disney Death Destination Defenestration Dies Wide Open Award-Bait Song Drugs Are Bad Scenery Porn Air-Vent Passageway Slasher Smile Downer Ending Villain Song Eye Scream The Film of the Book Wrong Genre Savvy Evil vs. Evil "Awesome McCool" Name B-Movie The Smurfette Principle Shower Scene Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mind Screw Victoria's Secret Compartment Soft Glass Historical-Domain Character Not Quite Dead Big Eater N-Word Privileges Body Horror Skewed Priorities Jerk Jock My Greatest Failure Action Survivor Rape as Drama Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Video Credits Ass Shove Translation Convention Offscreen Teleportation Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Adaptation Distillation The Faceless Crazy Jealous Guy Hell Is That Noise Fatal Family Photo British Films Authority Equals Asskicking Cruel and Unusual Death The Power of Love Rousing Speech Reality Ensues Badass in a Nice Suit Cold-Blooded Torture Betty and Veronica The Hero The Starscream '80s Hair Only One Name Call-Forward The Reveal Corpsing Foregone Conclusion The Load Disguised in Drag Ms. Fanservice timeperiod German Films Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Would Hurt a Child Dutch Angle Kids Are Cruel As Himself Cluster F-Bomb You Killed My Father Suddenly SHOUTING! Didn't Think This Through Breaking the Fourth Wall Oh, Crap! Alliterative Name Film Series Hate Sink The '80s Real Life Dirty Cop Final Girl Better to Die than Be Killed My God, What Have I Done? 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Death Seeker Manipulative Bastard Older Than They Look Abhorrent Admirer Double-Meaning Title One-Word Title It's Personal Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Call-Back Developing Doomed Characters BFG Chekhov's Gun The Bully Madness Mantra Stock Footage Everyone Has Standards Hong Kong Films Make It Look Like an Accident Improbable Aiming Skills Historical Hero Upgrade Artistic License – Gun Safety Due to the Dead Almost Kiss Flipping the Bird Beard of Evil Daylight Horror Black Comedy Failed a Spot Check Annoying Younger Sibling Vampire Fiction No Celebrities Were Harmed The Smart Guy Non-Indicative Name Undying Loyalty Be Careful What You Wish For Batman Gambit Not So Different Public Domain Feature Films Wicked Cultured Narrator Ripped from the Headlines Did Not Get the Girl Novelization Defiant to the End Adaptation Name Change Our Vampires Are Different Implacable Man Wham Line Eureka Moment Gory Discretion Shot Aluminum Christmas Trees Aside Glance Tagline Fat Bastard Death Glare The Stinger Easily Forgiven Evil Cannot Comprehend Good What Happened to the Mouse? The Un-Reveal The Cameo Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Big Bad Duumvirate The Dragon Immune to Bullets The Great Depression Pretty Little Headshots Alas, Poor Villain Face Death with Dignity Race Lift Canadian Movies Animated Credits Opening Smoking Is Cool Chekhov's Skill Crucified Hero Shot "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Artistic License – Physics Nothing Is Scarier Took a Level in Jerkass Only a Flesh Wound The Alcoholic Darker and Edgier Anachronic Order A Minor Kidroduction Anti-Hero Affably Evil He Who Fights Monsters Pyrrhic Victory It's All About Me Riddle for the Ages Imagine Spot Hoist by His Own Petard The Casanova Costume Porn Jerkass Has a Point As the Good Book Says... 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