Tropescilloscope: Honor Before Reason

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

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