Tropescilloscope: Knight Templar

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

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