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)

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