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