Tropescilloscope: Well-Intentioned Extremist

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

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