Tropescilloscope: Honor Before Reason

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

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All Girls Want Bad Boys Broken Bird Adaptation Expansion Offscreen Teleportation Mr. Fanservice The Hero Historical In-Joke Tagline Brainless Beauty Adaptation Name Change Wounded Gazelle Gambit Alliterative Name Poor Communication Kills Our Zombies Are Different Hero Antagonist Big Damn Heroes All There in the Manual Idiot Ball No OSHA Compliance Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun NO INDOOR VOICE Soundtrack Dissonance Artistic License – Physics The Cameo No Antagonist Thriller Irony Only Known by Their Nickname Babies Ever After She's Got Legs Anachronism Stew Contrived Coincidence Italian Films Let's Get Dangerous! Famous Last Words Major Injury Underreaction Despair Event Horizon Arch-Enemy The Remake The Alleged Car Alas, Poor Villain Television Movie Index Gender Flip Woman Scorned Never Found the Body The '90s Playing Gertrude The Big Guy Frame-Up As You Know Death by Sex Spiteful Spit You Have Failed Me Bolivian Army Ending Those Wacky Nazis Adaptational Badass Cold-Blooded Torture For the Evulz Manic Pixie Dream Girl Stalker with a Crush Jump Scare Breaking the Fourth Wall Protagonist Title Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Retirony Cowboy Cop French Films What the Hell, Hero? Riddle for the Ages Romantic Comedy Sports Stories Evil Plan Ungrateful Bastard Male Gaze Artistic License – Military The Mole Reasonable Authority Figure Eyepatch of Power German Films Super Strength Oh, Crap! Police are Useless Black Best Friend A Father to His Men Disappeared Dad Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Hope Spot Punny Name Slashed Throat Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Brutal Honesty The Dragon Shown Their Work Big "NO!" Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Boom, Headshot! My Beloved Smother Creative Closing Credits Deus ex Machina Eureka Moment Intrepid Reporter Non-Indicative Name Bald of Evil Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Meaningful Name Victoria's Secret Compartment Framing Device The Cavalry Auto Erotica Lock and Load Montage Shirtless Scene Interrupted Suicide Mugging the Monster Horror Comedy Documentary Male Frontal Nudity Demonic Possession Black Dude Dies First The Bad Guy Wins Alpha Bitch The Quiet One Ironic Echo Undying Loyalty Obfuscating Stupidity What Happened to the Mouse? 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Shout-Out Redemption Equals Death Parental Neglect Tap on the Head Naked People Are Funny Big Eater Plot Hole Hero of Another Story Hong Kong Films Sole Survivor The Stoic Intergenerational Friendship Bare Your Midriff Men Are the Expendable Gender Man on Fire Rousing Speech Action Girl Darkest Hour Easily Forgiven Eldritch Abomination Face–Heel Turn Sassy Black Woman Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Only a Flesh Wound Central Theme Butt-Monkey Australian Movies As the Good Book Says... Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds What You Are in the Dark Children Are Innocent Does This Remind You of Anything? Spanner in the Works Your Cheating Heart Sadistic Choice Martial Arts Movie Artistic License – Gun Safety Red Herring No Ending Wham Line Gainax Ending Extremely Short Timespan Biopic Action Prologue The End... Or Is It? Final Girl Calling the Old Man Out Loads and Loads of Characters I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fainting Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other How We Got Here Actor Allusion Scare Chord Age Lift Cool Guns Deal with the Devil Nice Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Genre Shift Better to Die than Be Killed Blood Knight Dark Action Girl Gone Horribly Right Reckless Gun Usage Sci-Fi Horror Adults Are Useless He Who Fights Monsters Horror Films Training Montage Awesome, but Impractical Country Matters Armor-Piercing Question Maybe Ever After Chase Scene The Chessmaster Parental Substitute The Lancer Demoted to Extra Bound and Gagged 20 Minutes into the Future Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Curb-Stomp Battle Villain Ball Suddenly SHOUTING! Badass Longcoat Big Bad Casting Gag Roaring Rampage of Revenge Stealth Hi/Bye Kill It with Fire Meaningful Background Event Toplessness from the Back Parental Abandonment Badass Grandpa Ghost Fiction Decoy Protagonist Animal Title Index Ambiguous Disorder Here We Go Again! Mighty Whitey You Have Outlived Your Usefulness One-Man Army Dark and Troubled Past Crapsack World One-Word Title Kids Are Cruel The Dog Bites Back Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Took a Level in Jerkass Fire-Forged Friends Take a Third Option Bunny-Ears Lawyer Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Spiritual Successor The Un-Reveal Manipulative Bastard The Atoner Domestic Abuse Military and Warfare Films Disney Villain Death Celebrity Paradox Becoming the Mask Handicapped Badass Does Not Like Shoes Accidental Murder Mr. Exposition Dual Wielding Villain Song Anguished Declaration of Love Defrosting Ice Queen Together in Death The Lost Lenore Diabolus ex Machina Naïve Newcomer Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Annoying Younger Sibling Knife Nut Big-Bad Ensemble Eye Scream Off with His Head! 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Epilogue Black Comedy Rape Death Glare Small Name, Big Ego Antagonist Title B-Movie Five-Man Band Dramatic Gun Cock Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Stoner A God Am I Match Cut Happily Married Worthy Opponent Loophole Abuse Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Informed Ability Fan Disservice An Arm and a Leg Face Death with Dignity The Power of Love Crazy-Prepared Show Within a Show Foreshadowing Dirty Coward Serial Killer Large Ham Berserk Button Adapted Out Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Married to the Job Pet the Dog All for Nothing Slasher Movie Bowdlerise Unspoken Plan Guarantee Soft Glass Artistic License – History Ship Tease Hollywood Darkness Animated Credits Opening Took a Level in Badass Adaptation Distillation Extreme Doormat Funny Foreigner Dull Surprise Meet Cute Offscreen Moment of Awesome Black and Gray Morality Cluster F-Bomb Chekhov's Gunman Covers Always Lie The Starscream Deconstruction Take That! 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One Steve Limit Ms. Fanservice folderlabel Obviously Evil Didn't Think This Through Advertised Extra Freudian Excuse Cool Old Guy Every Car Is a Pinto Made of Iron Early Installment Weirdness Vampire Fiction Flashback Asshole Victim Humiliation Conga No Name Given Shut Up, Hannibal! Unresolved Sexual Tension Evil Laugh Insane Troll Logic Truth in Television Spell My Name with an "S" Author Avatar Wham Shot Corrupt Corporate Executive Danny Peary Cult Movies List Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Random Events Plot Batman Gambit Fake Shemp Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Superhero Evil Counterpart Even Evil Has Loved Ones Put on a Bus Beware the Nice Ones Rule of Cool Kick the Dog "Well Done, Son!" Guy Downer Ending Big Brother Instinct Overly Long Gag Adaptation Dye-Job N-Word Privileges Action Genre Everyone Has Standards Gory Discretion Shot Race Lift Adult Fear Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The '50s Guns Akimbo Bi the Way Actually Pretty Funny Yandere Genre Throwback Eiffel Tower Effect Adorkable Affectionate Parody '80s Hair Camera Abuse Stealth Pun The Musical Earn Your Happy Ending All Just a Dream Heroic BSoD Pretty in Mink Bond One-Liner Zombie Stories Big Fancy House Determinator Ambiguous Ending Never Trust a Trailer She Cleans Up Nicely Sequel Hook Posthumous Character The Load Smug Snake Depraved Bisexual Credits Gag Only in It for the Money Malevolent Masked Men Storming the Castle Jerk with a Heart of Gold Bloodier and Gorier Same Language Dub Sinister Minister Ascended Extra Skewed Priorities Foregone Conclusion Dressing as the Enemy Disguised in Drag Pre-Asskicking One-Liner A.I. Is a Crapshoot Laughing Mad Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Romantic False Lead Hypocritical Humor Dark Is Not Evil Psychopathic Manchild Anyone Can Die Anti-Hero Music Stories Dwindling Party Tempting Fate Well-Intentioned Extremist Rule of Three Vomit Discretion Shot Lampshade Hanging Artistic License – Geography Abhorrent Admirer Bad Boss Not So Stoic A Minor Kidroduction Vomit Indiscretion Shot Suspiciously Specific Denial Translation Convention Good Is Not Nice From Nobody to Nightmare An Aesop Russian Films Camp Gay Hell Is That Noise Dropped a Bridge on Him Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Amoral Attorney Once More, with Clarity! I'm a Humanitarian Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Redshirt Army Psycho for Hire Gilligan Cut Evil Brit Heroic Sacrifice Pimped-Out Dress Brick Joke Break the Cutie The Mafia Bilingual Bonus Green-Eyed Monster The '60s Rich Bitch Silence Is Golden Deliberate Values Dissonance Mundane Made Awesome The Chick Death by Adaptation Wrong Genre Savvy Novelization Have a Gay Old Time Artistic License – Law Crucified Hero Shot Jitter Cam Drives Like Crazy Based on a True Story Foil Love at First Sight Woman in White Bloody Hilarious Drowning My Sorrows Recycled IN SPACE! Video Credits Monumental Damage Creator Cameo Did Not Get the Girl Those Two Guys Rule of Symbolism Dirty Old Man Developing Doomed Characters Kill 'em All Body Horror Evil Is Hammy Jerk Jock Villain with Good Publicity Overprotective Dad Improvised Weapon Lighter and Softer Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Historical Hero Upgrade Canadian Movies Outrun the Fireball Karma Houdini The Ace Running Gag Villain Opening Scene Heroes Want Redheads Sealed Evil in a Can A Date with Rosie Palms Dumb Blonde Closed Circle Shower Scene Author Appeal Love Triangle Expy Red Oni, Blue Oni Animal Motifs Neck Snap Bavarian Fire Drill Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Mexican Standoff Guile Hero The Smurfette Principle Sequel Escalation Badass in a Nice Suit Bottomless Magazines Trailers Always Spoil Serious Business Make It Look Like an Accident Chewing the Scenery Gold Digger Shoot the Shaggy Dog Empathic Environment Visual Pun The Alcoholic Dissonant Serenity The Great Depression It's Personal Unreliable Narrator Air-Vent Passageway Adaptational Heroism Accidental Misnaming Properly Paranoid Politically Incorrect Villain Captain Ersatz Fun with Acronyms "The Reason You Suck" Speech Hoist by His Own Petard Corpsing Japanese Films Bloodless Carnage British Films Award-Bait Song Character Development Action Survivor Psychological Thriller Cat Scare Mad Scientist "Awesome McCool" Name The Vamp Catapult Nightmare Mystery and Detective Films Spared by the Adaptation Call-Forward Taking You with Me Betty and Veronica Adaptational Attractiveness Comically Missing the Point Historical-Domain Character Your Head A-Splode Fatal Family Photo Enemy Mine Not So Above It All Card-Carrying Villain Amusing Injuries Be Careful What You Wish For Leaning on the Fourth Wall Wicked Cultured Due to the Dead Implacable Man Abusive Parents Almost Kiss All Men Are Perverts Reality Is Unrealistic Parental Incest Freeze-Frame Bonus The Ghost Our Vampires Are Different This Is Gonna Suck Arranged Marriage Evil Is Petty The X of Y Evil-Detecting Dog Fish out of Water timeperiod Stylistic Suck Belligerent Sexual Tension Sexy Discretion Shot O.O.C. Is Serious Business Title Drop Mercy Kill Genre Savvy Mistaken for Gay Scenery Porn Disney Death Only One Name Improbable Weapon User Unusual Euphemism Those Two Bad Guys Scary Black Man Film Series Token Minority Hypocrite World of Ham My God, What Have I Done? Affably Evil Adaptational Villainy The Dreaded Sanity Slippage Made of Explodium The Casanova The Film of the Book Car Fu Bad "Bad Acting" Destination Defenestration In Name Only Throwing Your Sword Always Works Rape as Drama La Résistance Bittersweet Ending An Axe to Grind Fingore Nothing Is Scarier Ominous Latin Chanting Left the Background Music On Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Sir Swears-a-Lot Heterosexual Life-Partners Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Facial Horror Taking the Bullet Fanservice Distracted by the Sexy Wretched Hive Gorn Race Against the Clock All There in the Script Mood Whiplash Too Dumb to Live Straight Gay Dirty Cop Not Even Bothering with the Accent Manly Tears Self-Deprecation Composite Character Cassandra Truth Karmic Death Insistent Terminology Femme Fatale Mythology Gag Cruel and Unusual Death From Bad to Worse Fiery Redhead Chekhov's Skill Pragmatic Adaptation Cool Car Punch-Clock Villain Anti-Villain Hooker with a Heart of Gold Off-into-the-Distance Ending Epic Movie Badass Boast