Tropescilloscope: He Who Fights Monsters

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

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