Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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