Tropescilloscope: Honor Before Reason

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

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