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)

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