Tropescilloscope: He Who Fights Monsters

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

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