Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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