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