Tropescilloscope: Honor Before Reason

Doing what's right, even if it's foolish. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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