Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

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

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Is Serious Business Grievous Bottley Harm Dressing as the Enemy It Will Never Catch On Eagleland Hollywood Darkness World of Ham Humans Are Bastards You Have Failed Me Sadistic Choice Silent Movie No Ending Mama Bear Nice Guy Parental Incest Redshirt Army Informed Ability You Have Outlived Your Usefulness One Steve Limit Hidden Depths Improbable Aiming Skills Italian Films Serial Killer Never Trust a Trailer Title Drop Laser-Guided Karma Science Fiction Films Developing Doomed Characters Sole Survivor Coming-of-Age Story Only Sane Man German Films Death by Irony Take a Third Option Evil Is Petty Anti-Hero Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Air-Vent Passageway Pyrrhic Victory Cowboy Cop Adaptational Attractiveness Leaning on the Fourth Wall Car Fu Rule of Symbolism Jerkass Lampshade Hanging Straight Gay Index of Film Westerns Dull Surprise Belligerent Sexual Tension Daddy's Girl Slasher Movie Evil Sounds Deep My Beloved Smother Fat Bastard Riddle for the Ages Hypocrite Aside Glance Call-Back Evil Is Hammy The Mafia Bittersweet Ending Rasputinian Death Pre-Asskicking One-Liner "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bi the Way Reality Has No Subtitles Pragmatic Villainy Retired Badass Lock and Load Montage Not What It Looks Like Ambiguous Disorder Dark Action Girl Last-Name Basis Genre Shift Took a Level in Badass The Stoner Body Horror Curse Cut Short Stock Footage Male Gaze Agony of the Feet Training Montage Back from the Dead Crapsack World No Name Given Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fake Shemp French Films Death of a Child Red Oni, Blue Oni Loads and Loads of Characters Offscreen Teleportation Artistic License – Physics Shoot the Shaggy Dog Crucified Hero Shot Parental Abandonment The Power of Love Rape as Drama Love Triangle Bound and Gagged Get Out! 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Or Is It? 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Tranquil Fury Vacation Films Red Shirt Babies Ever After Sports Stories Stealth Pun Naïve Newcomer The Load Eye Scream Dutch Angle Sci-Fi Horror Never Found the Body Together in Death Not Quite Dead Small Name, Big Ego Reckless Gun Usage Good Is Not Nice Bowdlerise Bavarian Fire Drill Dark and Troubled Past Fingore Big Damn Heroes Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Random Events Plot Villainous Breakdown Psychological Thriller Amusing Injuries Spared by the Adaptation Visual Pun Drugs Are Bad Too Dumb to Live Corpsing Really Gets Around Batman Gambit The Smart Guy Beauty Is Never Tarnished Big Brother Instinct Cloudcuckoolander Attempted Rape Cool Car Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Rated M for Manly Central Theme Police are Useless Adaptational Heroism Frame-Up The Cameo It's All About Me Historical-Domain Character Laughing Mad Ass Shove BFG Break the Cutie Expy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Curb-Stomp Battle Smug Snake Becoming the Mask Papa Wolf The Mole Fanservice The Smurfette Principle N-Word Privileges Be Careful What You Wish For Accidental Murder War Is Hell Mythology Gag Does This Remind You of Anything? Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Action Girl Instant Death Bullet Kick the Son of a Bitch Unwitting Instigator of Doom Artistic License – Biology Recycled IN SPACE! Not So Different The Ghost Final Girl Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Handicapped Badass Badass Longcoat Brick Joke The Bad Guy Wins Jerk Jock More Dakka And Starring Badass Boast Bond Villain Stupidity Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Let's Get Dangerous! Contrived Coincidence Unreliable Narrator "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue In Medias Res Easily Forgiven NO INDOOR VOICE Funny Background Event One-Word Title Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sanity Slippage The Great Depression Big Bad Alas, Poor Villain Authority Equals Asskicking The Alleged Car The Starscream Artistic License – History Exact Words Death Seeker Vomit Indiscretion Shot Karma Houdini Mistaken for Gay Deus ex Machina Combat Pragmatist Disney Death Rule of Cool He Who Fights Monsters Works Set in World War II Roaring Rampage of Revenge Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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