Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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