Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

Seeking to be heroic but does so via villainous deeds. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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