Tropescilloscope: He Who Fights Monsters

Hero becomes the very evil they sought to destroy. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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