Tropescilloscope: Good Is Not Nice

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

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