Tropescilloscope: The Atoner

Former bad guy spends story making up for the things he did. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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