Tropescilloscope: Honor Before Reason

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

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