Tropescilloscope: The Atoner

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

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