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