Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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