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Author: NightNymph

Jul 6th 2012 at 10:03:59 PM

^I agree, because even though authorities might not see it that way, the motives are entirely different, and from what I've seen so far, (although I'm fairly new and so could be wrong) motive seems to play a big role in many of these tropes on tvTropes, so much so that there are descriptions of different types of anti-villians, heroes, villians, etc. covered by these motivations in the tropes.

It is your trope, blumabriefs144, so I hate to disagree, but even with your first sentence two posts above, in both examples a moral reason is brought into it. I don't think that this fits with the "exploiting an emergency" part later on, because in that case actually a lack of or at least an ignoring of morality is involved, not "carry(ing) out what you need to" or "do(ing) something of a higher morality."

As for the name, the "Screw the rules, it's the apocalypse" would fit fine for the second type - the taking advantage type, but, in my opinion, it is not descriptive enough for the flavor of your first title "Screw the rules, it's an emergency" which implies the type 1 variety: that rules are ONLY being broken due to a necessity/emergency situation and not for personal gain or gratification at the expense of others. For that first type, I still prefer my Averting the Apocalypse Exemption (with or without the addition of "Rule").