Tropescilloscope: Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!

Character follows their conscience at the expense of the laws or their instructions. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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