Tropescilloscope: Pet the Dog

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

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