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