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