Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

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

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