Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

A character who commits horrid acts for good causes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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