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