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