Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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