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