Tropescilloscope: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

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

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