Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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