Tropescilloscope: Honor Before Reason

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

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They Really Do Love Each Other The Cavalry Time Skip Villain with Good Publicity Skewed Priorities Romantic False Lead Jerkass Has a Point The Big Guy Developing Doomed Characters Affectionate Parody Flipping the Bird Babies Ever After Agony of the Feet Never Trust a Trailer Air-Vent Passageway Evil Plan Getting Crap Past the Radar It Can Think Retirony Meaningful Name Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking War Is Hell Sacrificial Lion Pyrrhic Victory Only a Flesh Wound Vomit Discretion Shot Manic Pixie Dream Girl Reckless Gun Usage Beta Couple Interrupted Suicide Took a Level in Jerkass All There in the Manual Domestic Abuse Darker and Edgier An Arm and a Leg Damsel in Distress Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Evil-Detecting Dog The Casanova Wretched Hive Catapult Nightmare Big Bad Duumvirate Pragmatic Villainy O.O.C. 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Alliterative Name Big Brother Instinct Red Eyes, Take Warning Riddle for the Ages Hong Kong Films "The Reason You Suck" Speech Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Psychological Thriller Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Only One Name Market-Based Title Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Honor Before Reason Spiteful Spit Dark Action Girl Four-Temperament Ensemble My Beloved Smother Even Evil Has Loved Ones Disproportionate Retribution Deal with the Devil Left the Background Music On Double-Meaning Title Vacation Films Sanity Slippage The Chick Kill It with Fire Adaptational Attractiveness Actor Allusion Politically Incorrect Villain Captain Obvious Fingore Public Domain Feature Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Attempted Rape Television Movie Index Offscreen Moment of Awesome Does Not Like Shoes Adult Fear Frame-Up Mythology Gag Shower Scene Hollywood Darkness Silent Movie Humiliation Conga Line-of-Sight Name The Reveal Stylistic Suck Very Loosely Based on a True Story Shown Their Work Chekhov's Gunman For Want of a Nail The Voiceless Deadpan Snarker Lampshade Hanging Badass in a Nice Suit One-Word Title Funny Background Event Fainting The Bad Guy Wins Villain Protagonist Rousing Speech Sinister Minister Beware the Nice Ones Arranged Marriage The Remake Yandere The Dreaded Amoral Attorney Older Than They Look Body Horror Ambiguously Gay Room Full of Crazy Instant Death Bullet You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Biopic Stock Footage No Name Given Faux Affably Evil Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Big "NO!" Corpsing Scenery Porn Police are Useless World of Ham Serious Business Guns Akimbo All There in the Script Toplessness from the Back Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Serial Killer Small Name, Big Ego Bloodier and Gorier Horror Films Love Triangle Nice Guy The Mafia Film Noir Expository Hairstyle Change Boom, Headshot! 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Evil Laugh Apocalypse How Recycled IN SPACE! Adaptational Badass The Chessmaster Soundtrack Dissonance Kids Are Cruel Character Development May–December Romance Dramedy Brother–Sister Incest Non-Indicative Name Mind Screw Batman Gambit Took a Level in Badass MacGuffin Artistic License – Biology Loads and Loads of Characters Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ironic Echo Have a Gay Old Time Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Shout-Out Immune to Bullets Black and Gray Morality Rewatch Bonus Rasputinian Death Smoking Is Cool My God, What Have I Done? Hidden Depths Even Evil Has Standards Badass Normal Action Genre She Cleans Up Nicely Deliberately Monochrome The Musical Pretty in Mink Animal Motifs Our Zombies Are Different Empathic Environment Cool Car Mr. Exposition How We Got Here Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fourth Date Marriage Drugs Are Bad Villain Ball Driven to Suicide Becoming the Mask Motor Mouth The Brute Cool Shades Madness Mantra Rule of Funny Alpha Bitch Made of Explodium Adults Are Useless Love at First Sight Tranquil Fury Author Appeal Creative Closing Credits Slasher Smile Those Two Guys Hero Antagonist No Celebrities Were Harmed The Load As the Good Book Says... Naked People Are Funny NO INDOOR VOICE Offscreen Teleportation Eyepatch of Power Crazy Jealous Guy '80s Hair Plucky Comic Relief "Awesome McCool" Name Totally Radical Bad "Bad Acting" Adaptation Name Change Contrived Coincidence The Dragon Naïve Newcomer Artistic License – Physics Brick Joke Playing Gertrude Twist Ending Karma Houdini Spared by the Adaptation Italian Films Drives Like Crazy Unusually Uninteresting Sight Slashed Throat Adorkable Betty and Veronica Affably Evil Scary Black Man No-Holds-Barred Beatdown She's Got Legs Gone Horribly Right Laughing Mad Killed Mid-Sentence Leitmotif Neck Lift Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Animated Credits Opening Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Light Is Not Good Lighter and Softer Armor-Piercing Question Eye Scream Disappeared Dad After the End Reality Is Unrealistic Those Two Bad Guys Butt-Monkey Death by Sex Famous Last Words Badass Longcoat Kill 'em All Captain Ersatz Deus ex Machina Men Are the Expendable Gender Historical-Domain Character Reality Has No Subtitles Henpecked Husband A.I. Is a Crapshoot In the Back Insistent Terminology Artistic License – Law Sealed Evil in a Can Closed Circle Beard of Evil Mystery and Detective Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mad Scientist Leaning on the Fourth Wall Running Gag Asshole Victim Extremely Short Timespan Bring My Brown Pants Anachronism Stew Token Minority Call-Back Taking the Bullet Foreshadowing Foil The '50s Scare Chord There Is No Kill Like Overkill Superhero Foregone Conclusion No-Sell Cloudcuckoolander folderlabel The Mole Exact Words Our Vampires Are Different More Dakka Ominous Latin Chanting Red Right Hand Expy Fantastic Racism Not Even Bothering with the Accent Rape as Drama Victoria's Secret Compartment Fatal Family Photo Continuity Nod Paper-Thin Disguise Those Wacky Nazis Trailers Always Spoil Bond One-Liner Documentary Soft Glass Sassy Black Woman It's Personal Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bavarian Fire Drill Car Fu Fantasy Films Rule of Symbolism Off-into-the-Distance Ending Freudian Excuse Parental Abandonment Action Survivor Anti-Hero Anti-Villain Five-Man Band Be Careful What You Wish For Shut Up, Hannibal! Mr. Fanservice Big Damn Heroes Meet Cute Pretty Little Headshots Manchild Sir Swears-a-Lot Accidental Murder Up to Eleven Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Cameo Show Within a Show Distracted by the Sexy Protagonist Title Coming-of-Age Story Dirty Coward Flashback The Alcoholic Big Fancy House The Place Tap on the Head Wham Line Covers Always Lie Slap-Slap-Kiss Random Events Plot Punch-Clock Villain Eureka Moment Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Vampire Fiction Artistic License – Military Anyone Can Die Cat Fight Brutal Honesty Visual Pun Bloody Hilarious Does This Remind You of Anything? Mooks Rule of Cool Reality Ensues Adaptation Dye-Job True Companions Adaptation Expansion Science Fiction Films Enemy Mine Extreme Doormat Important Haircut B-Movie Peek-a-Boo Corpse Mama Bear Well-Intentioned Extremist Dwindling Party Dogged Nice Guy Badass Boast Chase Scene Refuge in Audacity Tagline Manly Tears Wounded Gazelle Gambit Aside Glance Canadian Movies Psycho for Hire Neck Snap Police Brutality Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Unspoken Plan Guarantee Product Placement Beauty Is Never Tarnished What the Hell, Hero? Last-Name Basis Martial Arts Movie Setting Update Manipulative Bastard Historical Hero Upgrade Mugging the Monster Irony Here We Go Again! Ghost Fiction Easily Forgiven Meaningful Background Event Canon Foreigner Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Improbable Aiming Skills Same Language Dub Pimped-Out Dress Casting Gag The X of Y Fanservice Extra I'm a Humanitarian Stepford Smiler Cain and Abel Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sci-Fi Horror Dumb Blonde Abhorrent Admirer Ax-Crazy Obfuscating Stupidity Precision F-Strike Ambiguous Disorder Faking the Dead Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Poor Communication Kills Humans Are Bastards Badass Bookworm Undying Loyalty What You Are in the Dark Mercy Kill Framing Device It's All About Me Maybe Ever After Fake Shemp Corrupt Corporate Executive Properly Paranoid Re-Cut Sequel Escalation A Father to His Men Death by Irony Military and Warfare Films Film Noir Index All Men Are Perverts Hollywood Law Evil Is Petty You Killed My Father Advertised Extra Australian Movies The Vamp Only Sane Man Stalker with a Crush Male Frontal Nudity Country Matters Take That! Creepy Child Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Lost Lenore As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dressing as the Enemy Only in It for the Money Genre Throwback Not So Stoic Make It Look Like an Accident Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Daylight Horror Authority Equals Asskicking Fatal Flaw Jerk Jock Male Gaze Dying Moment of Awesome Race Against the Clock Action Girl Works Set in World War II Despair Event Horizon In Medias Res Arch-Enemy Dull Surprise Bare Your Midriff Cluster F-Bomb Let's Get Dangerous! An Axe to Grind Malevolent Masked Men He Who Fights Monsters Facial Horror Fate Worse than Death Hope Spot Evil Is Hammy Wicked Cultured Better to Die than Be Killed Needs Wiki Magic Love "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Final Girl Throwing Your Sword Always Works Rule of Three Early Installment Weirdness Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Ripped from the Headlines Mundane Made Awesome The End... Or Is It? Shell-Shocked Veteran An Aesop The Stoner Red Herring Heel Realization Storming the Castle Almost Kiss Title Drop Historical Villain Upgrade Belligerent Sexual Tension Hell Is That Noise Heroic BSoD Redshirt Army Ass Shove The Ghost Broken Bird Historical In-Joke Your Head A-Splode No Ending Red Oni, Blue Oni Dark and Troubled Past Dramatic Gun Cock Handicapped Badass Loophole Abuse Hoist by His Own Petard Antagonist Title You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Pragmatic Adaptation Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Overprotective Dad From Nobody to Nightmare Evil Counterpart Plot Hole Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Only Known by Their Nickname Animal Title Index Not What It Looks Like Spell My Name with an "S" Crucified Hero Shot N-Word Privileges Mood Whiplash Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Kick the Son of a Bitch Cowboy Cop Dissonant Serenity Man on Fire Not Quite Dead Combat Pragmatist Improvised Weapon Shirtless Scene Truth in Television Heel–Face Turn Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Broken Aesop The Faceless Obstructive Bureaucrat Defiant to the End Index of Film Westerns Eagleland And the Adventure Continues Mexican Standoff "Well Done, Son!" Guy Never My Fault Woman Scorned Suspiciously Similar Substitute Curb-Stomp Battle Nothing Is Scarier Costume Porn timeperiod Retcon Anachronic Order Actually Pretty Funny My Greatest Failure Your Cheating Heart Once More, with Clarity! Dual Wielding Ambiguous Ending Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Horror Comedy Missing Mom The Ace Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Insult Backfire The Smurfette Principle Bi the Way Determinator Match Cut Break the Cutie Not Using the "Z" Word Berserk Button Brainless Beauty Bury Your Gays All for Nothing Action Prologue Suspiciously Specific Denial Children Are Innocent Real Life Writes the Plot A Date with Rosie Palms Creator Cameo Implacable Man Abusive Parents Department of Redundancy Department Auto Erotica Large Ham Smug Snake Exactly What It Says on the Tin Hero of Another Story No Antagonist