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