Tropescilloscope: Pet the Dog

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

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Badass in a Nice Suit Central Theme Sanity Slippage Broken Pedestal Canon Foreigner It Can Think Reality Ensues Light Is Not Good Recycled IN SPACE! Show Within a Show Call-Back Wicked Cultured Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Beauty Is Never Tarnished Man on Fire Casting Gag Gilligan Cut Lampshade Hanging Double Entendre Names to Run Away from Really Fast Sacrificial Lion Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Naïve Newcomer Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Meaningful Name Abhorrent Admirer The Vamp Moment Killer May–December Romance Adaptational Badass Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Suspiciously Specific Denial Lighter and Softer Bond One-Liner Scenery Gorn What the Hell, Hero? Cat Scare Age Lift Death by Sex Anti-Hero What Happened to the Mouse? Loophole Abuse Rule of Symbolism Only Known by Their Nickname Documentary Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Match Cut Villainous Breakdown Pimped-Out Dress Hong Kong Films Half the Man He Used to Be Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Boom, Headshot! 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All Men Are Perverts Line-of-Sight Name Love Triangle Abusive Parents The '70s It's Personal The '80s Credits Gag Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Loads and Loads of Characters Black Dude Dies First Character Development All for Nothing Cool Guns Dutch Angle Instant Death Bullet Cat Fight The Faceless Adaptational Villainy You Have Failed Me Insane Troll Logic Evil Sounds Deep Hoist by His Own Petard Politically Incorrect Villain Dark Is Not Evil You Killed My Father Vomit Discretion Shot Up to Eleven Good Is Not Nice Shower Scene Papa Wolf Call-Forward Heterosexual Life-Partners Mr. Fanservice Foil Spell My Name with an "S" Stock Footage Idiot Ball Disney Death Dirty Old Man Married to the Job Historical Villain Upgrade Leaning on the Fourth Wall Only in It for the Money La Résistance Not What It Looks Like Deconstruction Coming-of-Age Story Bad Boss Reality Is Unrealistic Hell Is That Noise Be Careful What You Wish For Intergenerational Friendship Made of Iron Evil Counterpart Ambiguous Disorder For the Evulz Sir Swears-a-Lot Sinister Minister World of Ham Improbable Aiming Skills Determinator Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Parental Incest Pretty in Mink A Minor Kidroduction Sole Survivor Attempted Rape Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sexy Discretion Shot Police are Useless Music Stories Implacable Man timeperiod Dark and Troubled Past Decoy Protagonist Black and Gray Morality "Well Done, Son!" Guy Extreme Doormat Heroes Want Redheads Truth in Television Determinator aka: The Determinator Straight Gay Overprotective Dad Dwindling Party Bavarian Fire Drill Rule of Cool Word of God Due to the Dead Soundtrack Dissonance And the Adventure Continues Hair-Trigger Temper The Load Genre Throwback The Hero Dies Kill It with Fire The Chick Kick the Son of a Bitch Silent Movie Brother–Sister Incest Adaptation Dye-Job Dirty Coward Bowdlerise Aluminum Christmas Trees Homage Serial Killer The Chessmaster Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Killed Mid-Sentence Pet the Dog The Reveal Stuff Blowing Up The Film of the Book An Arm and a Leg Insult Backfire Department of Redundancy Department Russian Films Knife Nut Australian Movies Large Ham Closed Circle The Lancer Television Movie Index Agony of the Feet Scary Black Man Brick Joke Bald of Evil Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Un-Reveal Major Injury Underreaction I Did What I Had to Do Older Than They Look Historical-Domain Character Nice Guy Disguised in Drag No Celebrities Were Harmed Eldritch Abomination Broken Bird No Name Given Undying Loyalty I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dramatic Irony Failed a Spot Check Death Glare Martial Arts Movie Affectionate Parody Visual Pun Honor Before Reason Worthy Opponent Hero of Another Story Fantastic Racism Big-Bad Ensemble Batman Gambit Bring My Brown Pants Dramedy Accidental Misnaming Fourth Date Marriage Guile Hero Market-Based Title Punny Name Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bait-and-Switch Easily Forgiven Captain Obvious 20 Minutes into the Future Ax-Crazy Playing Gertrude Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adapted Out Big "NO!" 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Properly Paranoid Historical In-Joke Death Seeker Immune to Bullets Canadian Movies Small Name, Big Ego Improbable Weapon User Demonic Possession Real Life He Who Fights Monsters Fatal Family Photo "Shaggy Dog" Story Together in Death Amoral Attorney Obstructive Bureaucrat Double-Meaning Title Military and Warfare Films Really Gets Around Hidden Depths The Ditz Artistic License – Geography I'm a Humanitarian Anachronism Stew Film Series Parental Abandonment Twist Ending Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Horror Comedy Horror Films One-Word Title Our Vampires Are Different Adaptation Expansion Deadpan Snarker Every Car Is a Pinto Almost Kiss Action Prologue Only Sane Man Drowning My Sorrows Disney Villain Death Handicapped Badass Fake Shemp Mood Whiplash Extremely Short Timespan Authority Equals Asskicking Chekhov's Gunman Slap-Slap-Kiss The End... Or Is It? Spanner in the Works Apocalypse How Antagonist Title Big Fancy House Christmas Movies Index Zombie Stories Posthumous Character Nothing Is Scarier Gender Flip Genre Savvy Arranged Marriage Hooker with a Heart of Gold Drugs Are Bad Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! German Films Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Bad Guy Wins Stealth Hi/Bye Epic Movie Tagline Japanese Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Historical Hero Upgrade Shell-Shocked Veteran Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Cavalry Ripped from the Headlines Pragmatic Adaptation Alas, Poor Villain Bolivian Army Ending Not Quite Dead Cool Old Guy Based on a True Story Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Flipping the Bird Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Roaring Rampage of Revenge Big Applesauce Establishing Character Moment Danny Peary Cult Movies List Not So Stoic Mugging the Monster Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Cool Old Lady Evil Is Hammy Storming the Castle Chewing the Scenery Gone Horribly Right Big Damn Heroes Villain Opening Scene Artistic License – History Country Matters Corpsing Rasputinian Death Romantic Comedy How We Got Here Product Placement Not So Different B-Movie Mad Scientist Grey and Gray Morality Rich Bitch Mistaken for Gay Auto Erotica Author Avatar The Big Guy Advertised Extra Spiteful Spit Adaptational Attractiveness Card-Carrying Villain Daddy's Girl Artistic License – Gun Safety Dropped a Bridge on Him In the Back Pyrrhic Victory Race Against the Clock Actor Allusion Black Comedy Fanservice Extra What You Are in the Dark Rated M for Manly Getting Crap Past the Radar Dark Reprise Spiritual Successor Evil Is Petty Shipper on Deck Villain Protagonist The Place Calling the Old Man Out Daylight Horror Ass Shove Obviously Evil Same Language Dub Mundane Made Awesome Annoying Younger Sibling Happily Married MacGuffin There Is No Kill Like Overkill Ship Tease Badass Boast A God Am I Fun with Acronyms Laughing Mad Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Creator Cameo Arch-Enemy After the End Self-Deprecation More Dakka Amusing Injuries Conspicuous CG Chekhov's Gun Thriller Ghost Fiction No OSHA Compliance Intrepid Reporter Paper-Thin Disguise Death by Irony The Alleged Car Re-Cut Eye Scream Epic Fail Fate Worse than Death Mythology Gag Black Best Friend Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Very Loosely Based on a True Story Air-Vent Passageway The Mafia Sadistic Choice Superhero Have a Gay Old Time Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other A Date with Rosie Palms Grievous Bottley Harm Woman in White Animated Credits Opening Sassy Black Woman Animal Title Index Alpha Bitch A.I. Is a Crapshoot Darker and Edgier Artistic License – Law Creative Closing Credits Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Insistent Terminology Big Bad Duumvirate Unreliable Narrator Deliberately Monochrome Punch-Clock Villain Mind Screw Karma Houdini The Stinger Gratuitous English Outrun the Fireball Fingore Hypocrite Serious Business Get Out! Real Life Writes the Plot Disproportionate Retribution No-Sell Shoot the Shaggy Dog My Greatest Failure Novelization Early-Bird Cameo Kubrick Stare Anachronic Order Badass Longcoat Took a Level in Jerkass Jerk Jock Male Gaze British Films Fatal Flaw Red Shirt Never My Fault Composite Character The '90s Deus ex Machina Public Domain Feature Films Facial Horror Works Set in World War II Not So Above It All The Stoner Four-Temperament Ensemble Rousing Speech Shirtless Scene Ambiguous Ending Italian Films Adaptation Distillation Death by Adaptation Car Fu Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Is Serious Business She's Got Legs Silence Is Golden Actually Pretty Funny Dogged Nice Guy Animal Motifs Naked People Are Funny Crazy-Prepared Curse Cut Short Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Your Cheating Heart The Stoic Cool Car Cool Shades Meaningful Echo All Girls Want Bad Boys Broken Aesop Combat Pragmatist The Hero Unresolved Sexual Tension Beard of Evil True Companions Dressing as the Enemy Black Comedy Rape Red Oni, Blue Oni Award-Bait Song Cowboy Cop Make It Look Like an Accident Big Brother Instinct Male Frontal Nudity Fiery Redhead Cluster F-Bomb Famous Last Words Anti-Villain Enemy Mine Villain Ball BFG Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Heel–Face Turn Bar Brawl Soft Glass War Is Hell Even Evil Has Standards Unwitting Instigator of Doom Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Those Two Guys Mr. Exposition Cassandra Truth Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Celebrity Paradox Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Accidental Murder Adorkable Rule of Three Brainless Beauty Greater-Scope Villain Developing Doomed Characters Does This Remind You of Anything? Dying Moment of Awesome Blood Knight Took a Level in Badass Screw the Rules, I Have Money! I Need a Freaking Drink Genre Shift The Dragon All There in the Manual The Smurfette Principle Leave the Camera Running Protagonist Title Plot Hole Beta Couple Mighty Whitey Curb-Stomp Battle Alliterative Name An Axe to Grind Hero Antagonist Book-Ends As Himself Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy It's All About Me Mooks Jitter Cam Non-Indicative Name He Knows Too Much Empathic Environment Despair Event Horizon I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Irony As You Know Never Trust a Trailer As the Good Book Says... Early Installment Weirdness Evil Laugh Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ominous Latin Chanting Anguished Declaration of Love Manipulative Bastard Catapult Nightmare Jerkass Has a Point Mystery and Detective Films Neck Snap Asshole Victim The Musical Wounded Gazelle Gambit Monumental Damage Didn't Think This Through One-Man Army Face–Heel Turn Vomit Indiscretion Shot Action Genre A Father to His Men Mercy Kill Crucified Hero Shot Dumb Blonde