Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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