Tropescilloscope: Pet the Dog

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

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