Tropescilloscope: Pet the Dog

An act of kindness by a Villain or Anti-Hero. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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