Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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