Tropescilloscope: He Who Fights Monsters

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

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Spiritual Successor Badass Normal Our Zombies Are Different Death Seeker Evil Laugh Victoria's Secret Compartment Bilingual Bonus Ms. Fanservice The Faceless Would Hurt a Child Cool Old Lady Deadpan Snarker Punny Name Sassy Black Woman Obstructive Bureaucrat Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Intrepid Reporter Evil Sounds Deep Left the Background Music On Manipulative Bastard Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Blackmail Bittersweet Ending Broken Pedestal You Have Failed Me Badass Boast Heroes Want Redheads Disguised in Drag Anguished Declaration of Love The Smart Guy Continuity Nod Genre Savvy Determinator Psychological Thriller Mugging the Monster A Father to His Men Action Girl Disappeared Dad Very Loosely Based on a True Story Black and Gray Morality Mind Screw Crucified Hero Shot Here We Go Again! Costume Porn Damsel in Distress Framing Device Evil Plan The Starscream Sinister Minister Captain Ersatz Super Strength As the Good Book Says... Disney Villain Death Pragmatic Adaptation Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Gory Discretion Shot The Reveal Becoming the Mask Music Stories Chekhov's Gunman Half the Man He Used to Be Put on a Bus Dual Wielding Accidental Murder Jitter Cam As You Know Sci-Fi Horror Cold-Blooded Torture Arranged Marriage Dutch Angle Awesome, but Impractical Badass in a Nice Suit Only in It for the Money Humans Are Bastards Alas, Poor Villain Improvised Weapon Daylight Horror The Power of Love Daddy's Girl Not Quite Dead Italian Films Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Betty and Veronica Together in Death Ambiguously Gay Never My Fault Gainax Ending No Ending Dull Surprise Adaptational Heroism Alpha Bitch Bring My Brown Pants Early-Bird Cameo Bi the Way Cool Guns Grievous Bottley Harm In Name Only Deus ex Machina Foregone Conclusion Took a Level in Badass Evil-Detecting Dog All for Nothing Famous Last Words From Bad to Worse Artistic License – Military Small Name, Big Ego Based on a True Story Bond Villain Stupidity Action Survivor Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Eagleland Anachronic Order Award-Bait Song Insane Troll Logic Romantic Comedy The Mole "The Reason You Suck" Speech Adaptational Villainy For Want of a Nail Shoot the Shaggy Dog Never Found the Body Eldritch Abomination Depraved Bisexual Brutal Honesty Earn Your Happy Ending Better to Die than Be Killed As Himself Not So Stoic Killed Mid-Sentence Abusive Parents Hero Antagonist Captain Obvious Revenge All Just a Dream N-Word Privileges Names to Run Away from Really Fast Meet Cute Adorkable Unspoken Plan Guarantee Rated M for Manly Exact Words Improbable Aiming Skills Belligerent Sexual Tension Comically Missing the Point Bait-and-Switch BFG Jump Scare Due to the Dead Ambiguous Ending Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Quiet One Offscreen Teleportation Cain and Abel Heel Realization Air-Vent Passageway Eye Scream Back from the Dead Unwitting Instigator of Doom Department of Redundancy Department Redshirt Army Mighty Whitey Demonic Possession Tagline It Will Never Catch On Bland-Name Product I Need a Freaking Drink Undying Loyalty Irony Credits Gag Take That! From Nobody to Nightmare The Alcoholic Eureka Moment Immune to Bullets Rule of Cool Blood Knight Rasputinian Death The Brute Dying Moment of Awesome Gilligan Cut Gold Digger Mercy Kill Superhero Kids Are Cruel Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Villain Protagonist timeperiod Adaptational Attractiveness The Hero Dies An Arm and a Leg Celebrity Paradox '80s Hair Badass Longcoat The Ditz There Is No Kill Like Overkill Interrupted Suicide Madness Mantra Slasher Movie Improbable Weapon User Suddenly SHOUTING! What You Are in the Dark Only One Name Riddle for the Ages Villain Ball Butt-Monkey Knife Nut Shown Their Work Cool Old Guy Vacation Films Training Montage Big Bad Duumvirate Deliberately Monochrome Dark Is Not Evil Shirtless Scene You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Match Cut Fanservice Bury Your Gays Slashed Throat Homage Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fish out of Water Wham Shot Neck Lift Adaptation Distillation Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ironic Echo Men Are the Expendable Gender Dissonant Serenity Funny Background Event Kill 'em All Fingore Brick Joke Your Head A-Splode Mooks Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Villain with Good Publicity Obfuscating Stupidity Eiffel Tower Effect Decoy Protagonist Author Avatar Brainless Beauty Cat Scare Gorn Bare Your Midriff Let's Get Dangerous! Affectionate Parody Double Entendre Male Frontal Nudity Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Vampire Fiction Time Skip Adaptation Expansion Beta Couple Bullying a Dragon Ass Shove Red Oni, Blue Oni Foil The Cameo Armor-Piercing Question Toplessness from the Back Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ghost Fiction Artistic License – Geography Bloody Hilarious The Alleged Car All There in the Script Love at First Sight Fatal Family Photo Race Against the Clock Brother–Sister Incest Tranquil Fury Red Herring Lighter and Softer Not Even Bothering with the Accent Rule of Three Say My Name NO INDOOR VOICE Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Cool Car Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Australian Movies Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Flashback Destination Defenestration folderlabel Anti-Villain Serial Killer Taking the Bullet Faux Affably Evil The Mafia Lock and Load Montage Sole Survivor In Medias Res Peek-a-Boo Corpse Corrupt Corporate Executive Hidden Depths Attempted Rape Parental Incest Face–Heel Turn Not So Different Totally Radical A.I. Is a Crapshoot Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Alliterative Name Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Guy Cowboy Cop Bloodless Carnage Maybe Ever After Retirony Diabolus ex Machina Dirty Old Man Aluminum Christmas Trees Pay Evil unto Evil Woman in White Token Minority Rousing Speech Rewatch Bonus Nice Hat Gender Flip Shipper on Deck Translation Convention The Lost Lenore May–December Romance Blatant Lies Pretty in Mink Re-Cut Kubrick Stare Disney Death Stalker with a Crush World of Ham Sacrificial Lion It's Personal Ax-Crazy An Axe to Grind Badass Grandpa Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Important Haircut Sealed Evil in a Can Rule of Symbolism Evil Counterpart Corpsing Closed Circle Martial Arts Movie Fatal Flaw The Chessmaster Fate Worse than Death Fan Disservice I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Getting Crap Past the Radar It Can Think The Stinger Parental Abandonment Setting Update Whole Plot Reference Blood from the Mouth The Un-Reveal Ungrateful Bastard Hoist by His Own Petard Friend to All Children Politically Incorrect Villain One Steve Limit The Oner Pre-Mortem One-Liner Dogged Nice Guy Reality Ensues Poor Communication Kills Well-Intentioned Extremist What the Hell, Hero? Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dark Action Girl Russian Films The Sociopath Malevolent Masked Men Insult Backfire The Dog Bites Back Posthumous Character Curse Cut Short Big "NO!" Distracted by the Sexy Mundane Made Awesome Failed a Spot Check Ripped from the Headlines Big Bad Creative Closing Credits Dirty Cop Unreliable Narrator The Stoic And Starring Evil vs. Evil Dramatic Gun Cock Final Girl Big Applesauce Romantic False Lead Real Life Soundtrack Dissonance Make It Look Like an Accident "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Male Gaze Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Be Careful What You Wish For B-Movie I Did What I Had to Do Early Installment Weirdness Fanservice Extra Suspiciously Similar Substitute Establishing Character Moment Broken Aesop The Place Plucky Comic Relief All Girls Want Bad Boys Evil Is Hammy Made of Explodium Laughing Mad My God, What Have I Done? 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Or Is It? Stock Footage How We Got Here Crazy-Prepared Mood Whiplash Demoted to Extra Mr. Exposition Fun with Acronyms Stuff Blowing Up Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Mistaken for Gay The Musical Outrun the Fireball Artistic License – Law Evil Brit Ship Tease Bloodier and Gorier Oh, Crap! Neck Snap Agony of the Feet "Shaggy Dog" Story Even Evil Has Standards Dirty Coward Gratuitous English Only Known by Their Nickname Darker and Edgier Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Scare Chord Badass Bookworm Sports Stories Room Full of Crazy Stepford Smiler Catapult Nightmare Meaningful Echo Recycled IN SPACE! Naked People Are Funny Break the Haughty Adapted Out Police are Useless She Cleans Up Nicely Ascended Extra Aside Glance Stealth Pun Idiot Ball Skewed Priorities Pretty Little Headshots Calling the Old Man Out Defrosting Ice Queen Man on Fire MacGuffin Fat Bastard Amusing Injuries Kick the Dog Boom, Headshot! Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Love Triangle Apocalypse How Those Two Bad Guys Black Best Friend I'm a Humanitarian Naïve Newcomer Retired Badass The '70s Off-into-the-Distance Ending Wretched Hive Big Eater Roaring Rampage of Revenge The '50s Smoking Is Cool Animated Credits Opening Video Credits Villain Opening Scene The Ace Police Brutality Wham Line Animal Title Index Hooker with a Heart of Gold Actually Pretty Funny Bound and Gagged Chase Scene Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Casanova Crazy Jealous Guy Bald of Evil Batman Gambit Only Sane Man Adaptation Name Change Bad Boss Large Ham Public Domain Feature Films An Aesop Retcon Smug Snake Wicked Cultured Gone Horribly Right