Tropescilloscope: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Noble action brings bad consequences. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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