Tropescilloscope: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

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

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Cool Old Guy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Heterosexual Life-Partners Film Series Closed Circle Those Two Bad Guys Fanservice Extra Adaptational Attractiveness Dramatic Gun Cock Evil Brit The Great Depression Black Dude Dies First Faking the Dead Manipulative Bastard Undying Loyalty Authority Equals Asskicking Cruel and Unusual Death Those Wacky Nazis Irony Rule of Three Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Moment Killer Woman in White Evil Sounds Deep Unusually Uninteresting Sight Abusive Parents Trailers Always Spoil Deal with the Devil Adaptational Villainy Overprotective Dad Almost Kiss Belligerent Sexual Tension Toplessness from the Back Creative Closing Credits Poor Communication Kills Laser-Guided Karma Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Villain Opening Scene Japanese Films Male Frontal Nudity Easily Forgiven Chekhov's Skill Ambiguous Ending Room Full of Crazy Only Sane Man Broken Pedestal Rape as Drama Anachronic Order The Hero All Men Are Perverts Karmic Death Happily Married Grey and Gray Morality Slashed Throat Your Head A-Splode Dressing as the Enemy Public Domain Feature Films Country Matters Lock and Load Montage Bi the Way Meet Cute The Oner Non-Indicative Name Jerk Jock Spanner in the Works Anyone Can Die Rousing Speech Evil vs. Evil Every Car Is a Pinto Genre Shift Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Action Genre Blatant Lies Killed Mid-Sentence Twist Ending Psycho for Hire Comically Missing the Point Fiery Redhead Conspicuous CG Framing Device Death Seeker Award-Bait Song Arranged Marriage Very Loosely Based on a True Story You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Henpecked Husband Worthy Opponent Precision F-Strike Rewatch Bonus The Big Guy Nice Hat Mad Scientist No Ending Amusing Injuries Groin Attack Punch-Clock Villain Not So Stoic Plot Hole Expy Badass Longcoat Dark Reprise Faux Affably Evil Fantastic Racism Bound and Gagged "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Cloudcuckoolander Mexican Standoff Stalker with a Crush Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Character Development Better to Die than Be Killed Ripped from the Headlines I Just Shot Marvin in the Face O.O.C. Is Serious Business Nice Guy Artistic License – History Animal Motifs Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Broken Bird Gorn Deadpan Snarker Book-Ends Demonic Possession Get Out! Tagline Yandere Karma Houdini Redemption Equals Death Foil Super Strength Sacrificial Lion Never Found the Body Shout-Out Not So Different Jerkass Self-Deprecation Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Big Applesauce Famous Last Words Noodle Incident Actually Pretty Funny Cool Shades Cool Car The Stinger Naïve Newcomer Author Appeal Truth in Television Red Shirt Does Not Like Shoes Outrun the Fireball Epic Movie All Girls Want Bad Boys Reality Is Unrealistic Mythology Gag Woman Scorned Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Genre Throwback Rich Bitch The Voiceless Paper-Thin Disguise Affably Evil Black and Gray Morality Motor Mouth Disguised in Drag Canon Foreigner The Chessmaster Red Herring Arch-Enemy My God, What Have I Done? 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Big Brother Instinct Animal Title Index Composite Character The Lancer Humans Are Bastards folderlabel Martial Arts Movie Aww, Look! 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Drill Sergeant Nasty Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Stepford Smiler Storming the Castle Shell-Shocked Veteran Romantic False Lead The Ace Never My Fault Neck Snap Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Smurfette Principle Death by Adaptation Market-Based Title Posthumous Character Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mistaken for Gay Biopic Ms. Fanservice Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Fan Disservice Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ass Shove Would Hurt a Child For the Evulz Product Placement True Companions La Résistance Historical Hero Upgrade Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Taking the Bullet The Dragon Rasputinian Death Reckless Gun Usage Mundane Made Awesome She Cleans Up Nicely Dissonant Serenity Knight Templar Narrator Mighty Whitey Covers Always Lie Television Movie Index Taking You with Me Crazy Jealous Guy Obviously Evil Historical In-Joke Disney Death I'm a Humanitarian Early Installment Weirdness Politically Incorrect Villain Guns Akimbo Roaring Rampage of Revenge Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Sequel Hook Spell My Name with an "S" Sequel Escalation Hair-Trigger Temper Artistic License – Geography Novelization Defiant to the End Catapult Nightmare Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? It's All About Me Freudian Excuse Pyrrhic Victory Parental Abandonment Disappeared Dad Villain Ball Whole Plot Reference The Stoic War Is Hell Cool Guns Auto Erotica Cold-Blooded Torture Adaptation Distillation Took a Level in Badass Needs Wiki Magic Love Never Trust a Trailer Heel–Face Turn Abhorrent Admirer Diabolus ex Machina Awesome, but Impractical Star-Crossed Lovers Refuge in Audacity Cassandra Truth Mr. Exposition Danny Peary Cult Movies List Earn Your Happy Ending Show Within a Show Berserk Button Black Best Friend Spiritual Successor Bury Your Gays Made of Explodium Italian Films Tap on the Head Brainless Beauty Ax-Crazy Corpsing Off with His Head! The '70s Fake Shemp Vacation Films Leave the Camera Running Superhero Alpha Bitch NO INDOOR VOICE Artistic License – Physics Curse Cut Short And I Must Scream Older Than They Look Random Events Plot Jerkass Has a Point Leaning on the Fourth Wall Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Becoming the Mask Amoral Attorney Dies Wide Open Good Is Not Nice Black Comedy Destination Defenestration Shown Their Work Mama Bear Loads and Loads of Characters Butt-Monkey More Dakka The Ghost Only a Flesh Wound Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Once More, with Clarity! Hate Sink I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Darker and Edgier Kids Are Cruel Eldritch Abomination After the End Ungrateful Bastard Alliterative Name Hypocritical Humor Adaptation Name Change The Ditz Green-Eyed Monster Ambiguous Disorder Made of Iron She's Got Legs Spared by the Adaptation Papa Wolf Dumb Blonde Drives Like Crazy Crapsack World Stylistic Suck Deliberately Monochrome Rule of Symbolism Off-into-the-Distance Ending Alas, Poor Villain Ambiguously Gay Sassy Black Woman Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Call-Back The Casanova A God Am I Cluster F-Bomb He Knows Too Much Badass Bookworm Heel Realization Setting Update Works Set in World War II Unresolved Sexual Tension My Beloved Smother Stock Footage Darkest Hour Unreliable Narrator The Load In the Back Blood Knight Freeze-Frame Bonus Immune to Bullets Interrupted Suicide Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Lighter and Softer As You Know Really Gets Around Scenery Gorn Five-Man Band The Dreaded Training Montage Red Oni, Blue Oni Pragmatic Villainy Hope Spot Sinister Minister Adapted Out Improbable Aiming Skills A Father to His Men You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Meaningful Background Event Chewing the Scenery Punny Name Running Gag As Long as It Sounds Foreign From Bad to Worse Grievous Bottley Harm Historical-Domain Character No-Sell Pet the Dog Calling the Old Man Out Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pimped-Out Dress Intrepid Reporter Jump Scare Captain Obvious The Bad Guy Wins Sole Survivor Wounded Gazelle Gambit Knife Nut Central Theme It Will Never Catch On The Stoner Real Life Writes the Plot Gender Flip Dropped a Bridge on Him Skewed Priorities Major Injury Underreaction No OSHA Compliance From Nobody to Nightmare The '90s Crazy-Prepared Smoking Is Cool Greater-Scope Villain Rule of Funny Adaptation Expansion Pretty in Mink Bad Boss Reality Has No Subtitles Vitriolic Best Buds Accidental Misnaming Important Haircut Distracted by the Sexy Idiot Ball Jerk with a Heart of Gold Police are Useless Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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