Tropescilloscope: He Who Fights Monsters

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

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