Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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