Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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