Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

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

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