Tropescilloscope: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

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

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