Tropescilloscope: Honor Before Reason

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

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