Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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