Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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