Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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