Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

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

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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Dirty Cop Mama Bear Bring My Brown Pants Totally Radical Book-Ends Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Wretched Hive Big Applesauce A God Am I The Bully Evil Laugh Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Butt-Monkey Pet the Dog Manchild Only in It for the Money The End... Or Is It? Historical Hero Upgrade Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Abusive Parents No Name Given Dark Action Girl Adaptational Heroism Overly Long Gag Villain Ball Gold Digger Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Air-Vent Passageway Spiteful Spit Establishing Character Moment Back from the Dead Informed Ability Dies Wide Open Deliberate Values Dissonance Actor Allusion The '80s Hero of Another Story Music Stories The Lancer Hate Sink Handicapped Badass Serious Business Product Placement Left the Background Music On Vacation Films Ripped from the Headlines You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Berserk Button As the Good Book Says... 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Almost Kiss Bolivian Army Ending Catch-Phrase Kill 'em All Bullying a Dragon Shoot the Shaggy Dog Names to Run Away from Really Fast Deconstruction Sequel Escalation Country Matters Villain with Good Publicity Arc Words The Quiet One Comically Missing the Point Evil-Detecting Dog Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Disappeared Dad The Atoner Visual Pun Awesome, but Impractical Adaptational Villainy Redemption Equals Death Manipulative Bastard Setting Update Femme Fatale Overprotective Dad Zombie Stories I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Action Prologue Jump Scare Crazy-Prepared A Minor Kidroduction Early-Bird Cameo Christmas Movies Index Karmic Death Offscreen Moment of Awesome Friend to All Children Body Horror Foil Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Men Are the Expendable Gender Scare Chord Hoist by His Own Petard Crazy Jealous Guy Red Oni, Blue Oni Face Death with Dignity All for Nothing Needs Wiki Magic Love Death by Sex You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Composite Character I Want My Beloved to Be Happy From Nobody to Nightmare Reality Has No Subtitles Big Damn Heroes Foreshadowing Disguised in Drag Instant Death Bullet Ambiguously Gay No Antagonist Dutch Angle Never Trust a Trailer It's Personal Flipping the Bird "The Reason You Suck" Speech Poor Communication Kills Belligerent Sexual Tension The Dog Bites Back The Vamp Re-Cut Heroes Want Redheads Affectionate Parody Get Out! There Is No Kill Like Overkill Unspoken Plan Guarantee Cool Old Lady Red Shirt In Name Only Dwindling Party Manly Tears Pyrrhic Victory How We Got Here The Chick And Starring Authority Equals Asskicking Double Entendre Married to the Job As Long as It Sounds Foreign Captain Ersatz Accidental Murder B-Movie Distracted by the Sexy Mercy Kill Lock and Load Montage Sanity Slippage Bottomless Magazines The Big Guy Small Name, Big Ego Driven to Suicide May–December Romance Black Comedy Laughing Mad Fan Disservice Drowning My Sorrows "Well Done, Son!" 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Punch-Clock Villain Brother–Sister Incest I'm a Humanitarian Wrong Genre Savvy Flashback Oh, Crap! Adaptation Name Change Real Life Unusual Euphemism It's All About Me Martial Arts Movie Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Corrupt Corporate Executive Recycled IN SPACE! 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Artistic License – Geography Hero Antagonist Villainous Breakdown Depraved Bisexual Rule of Funny Obstructive Bureaucrat Cool Guns Downer Ending Better to Die than Be Killed Early Installment Weirdness Badass Normal Throwing Your Sword Always Works Nice Guy "Shaggy Dog" Story The Remake All Girls Want Bad Boys Cloudcuckoolander Plucky Comic Relief Taking You with Me Playing Gertrude Covers Always Lie Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Deus ex Machina Wham Shot Animal Title Index After the End Never Found the Body Only One Name Heroic BSoD Hypocrite Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Pretty Little Headshots I Did What I Had to Do Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Only Known by Their Nickname Humans Are Bastards Psycho for Hire Mooks Horror Films Roger Ebert: Great Movies List World of Ham Break the Haughty Retcon Destination Defenestration As You Know Death by Adaptation Public Domain Feature Films Man on Fire Blood from the Mouth Vampire Fiction Film Noir Index Bloodier and Gorier The Alleged Car Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Slasher Movie Brick Joke Villain Opening Scene Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Creative Closing Credits Homage Meaningful Background Event Epic Movie Malevolent Masked Men Twist Ending Superhero Police Brutality Adaptation Distillation And the Adventure Continues Bunny-Ears Lawyer Put on a Bus Your Cheating Heart Well-Intentioned Extremist Adult Fear Scenery Porn Insult Backfire N-Word Privileges Obfuscating Stupidity Green-Eyed Monster Humiliation Conga Noodle Incident Older Than They Look The Un-Reveal Truth in Television An Aesop Historical Villain Upgrade Drugs Are Bad Bond Villain Stupidity Becoming the Mask Blatant Lies Heterosexual Life-Partners Black Dude Dies First Leitmotif Took a Level in Badass Fantasy Films Woman in White Naked People Are Funny Neck Snap Slashed Throat Posthumous Character Cool Shades Improbable Aiming Skills Here We Go Again! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality You Killed My Father Dark Is Not Evil Faking the Dead Whole Plot Reference Fantastic Racism Chiaroscuro Adapted Out Genre Throwback Refuge in Audacity Translation Convention Adaptation Dye-Job Spared by the Adaptation Bar Brawl Failed a Spot Check Historical-Domain Character Disney Death Psychological Thriller Badass in a Nice Suit Off with His Head! The Ditz Camera Abuse Roaring Rampage of Revenge Eureka Moment Large Ham Death by Irony Final Girl Vomit Discretion Shot The Casanova Disney Villain Death Author Avatar Random Events Plot An Axe to Grind Stalker with a Crush MacGuffin Reasonable Authority Figure Slasher Smile Straight Gay The Faceless Sadistic Choice Rule of Cool My Greatest Failure Love at First Sight Skewed Priorities Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Politically Incorrect Villain Psychopathic Manchild Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Star-Crossed Lovers Chewing the Scenery Cluster F-Bomb Didn't Think This Through My God, What Have I Done? Adaptational Badass Four-Temperament Ensemble Hollywood Darkness Faux Affably Evil Stuff Blowing Up Camp Gay For Want of a Nail Parental Incest Artistic License – History Kubrick Stare Shut Up, Hannibal! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Take That! Breaking the Fourth Wall Time Skip Red Herring Abhorrent Admirer Exact Words Amoral Attorney Last-Name Basis The Stoner Ambiguous Ending Bait-and-Switch Precision F-Strike Irony Bilingual Bonus Sci-Fi Horror Retirony Broken Bird Only Sane Man Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Monumental Damage Determinator Adaptational Attractiveness The '70s Creator Cameo Deadpan Snarker Wounded Gazelle Gambit Scary Black Man Action Genre Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Closed Circle Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Does This Remind You of Anything? Narrator Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Pay Evil unto Evil One-Man Army Action Survivor Moment Killer My Beloved Smother Film Noir Dressing as the Enemy Insistent Terminology Deliberately Monochrome Action Girl Casting Gag Defiant to the End Not So Different Soft Glass Unresolved Sexual Tension Age Lift Victoria's Secret Compartment Knight Templar Blackmail The Stinger Funny Foreigner Killed Mid-Sentence Big "NO!" Hope Spot Worthy Opponent Fourth Date Marriage Big Brother Instinct Gratuitous English Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Facial Horror Cold-Blooded Torture Ungrateful Bastard Ominous Latin Chanting Not Quite Dead Continuity Nod Silence Is Golden Children Are Innocent Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" War Is Hell Unwitting Instigator of Doom Major Injury Underreaction Real Life Writes the Plot Fingore Love Triangle Eagleland Mood Whiplash Nice Hat Extremely Short Timespan Silent Movie Hypocritical Humor Improvised Weapon Meet Cute Big Bad Duumvirate Suddenly SHOUTING! Advertised Extra Pragmatic Adaptation One-Word Title Italian Films Novelization It Will Never Catch On Offscreen Teleportation Conspicuous CG Brutal Honesty Line-of-Sight Name The Musical Expository Hairstyle Change Self-Deprecation Eyepatch of Power Bittersweet Ending Rape as Drama Made of Explodium Not So Above It All Darker and Edgier Room Full of Crazy Vitriolic Best Buds Race Lift Gender Flip Historical In-Joke Romantic Comedy Ironic Echo