Tropescilloscope: The Atoner

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

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