Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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