Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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