Tropescilloscope: He Who Fights Monsters

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

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