Tropescilloscope: He Who Fights Monsters

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

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