Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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