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