Tropescilloscope: The Atoner

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

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