Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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