Tropescilloscope: Pet the Dog

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

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