Tropescilloscope: Action Survivor

The Hero of the story is an Average Joe. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Stuff Blowing Up Ambiguous Disorder Big Eater Fiery Redhead Sports Stories Eldritch Abomination Historical In-Joke Shut Up, Hannibal! Earn Your Happy Ending Gilligan Cut Historical Hero Upgrade Face–Heel Turn Adults Are Useless Gratuitous English No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Catapult Nightmare Spanner in the Works Defiant to the End Kubrick Stare Star-Crossed Lovers Japanese Films Author Avatar The Cameo Babies Ever After Anachronic Order Bad Boss Deliberately Monochrome Exact Words Unusual Euphemism Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big "NO!" Eureka Moment Have a Gay Old Time Creative Closing Credits Action Genre It's All About Me Mexican Standoff Older Than They Look Cool Guns Pre-Mortem One-Liner Pretty in Mink Superhero No Celebrities Were Harmed Fun with Acronyms Comically Missing the Point Curb-Stomp Battle "Shaggy Dog" Story Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Alleged Car Only Known by Their Nickname Didn't Think This Through Major Injury Underreaction Taking the Bullet The Ghost Black Comedy Action Girl Artistic License – Gun Safety Eyepatch of Power Gender Flip Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Guy Crucified Hero Shot Early Installment Weirdness Fantastic Racism Vacation Films Cat Fight It Can Think Pimped-Out Dress The Starscream Villain Protagonist Failed a Spot Check Big-Bad Ensemble Dramatic Gun Cock Authority Equals Asskicking Smoking Is Cool NO INDOOR VOICE Interrupted Suicide Cool Car Kids Are Cruel Shower Scene Mr. Fanservice Small Name, Big Ego Show Within a Show Artistic License – Military Based on a True Story You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Evil Brit Romantic False Lead Happily Married Grievous Bottley Harm Aside Glance Rewatch Bonus Cain and Abel Hope Spot Even Evil Has Standards La Résistance Idiot Ball Genre Throwback Suddenly SHOUTING! '80s Hair Arc Words Adaptational Villainy Say My Name Historical Villain Upgrade All Just a Dream Scenery Gorn Darker and Edgier Roaring Rampage of Revenge Corpsing Playing Gertrude Dirty Coward Poor Communication Kills Maybe Ever After Alas, Poor Villain Dark Action Girl Deal with the Devil Evil Laugh Arranged Marriage Funny Foreigner Morality Pet Hollywood Law Tempting Fate Dies Wide Open Apocalypse How The Atoner Hate Sink Those Two Bad Guys Deadpan Snarker Dogged Nice Guy One-Word Title Drugs Are Bad Gold Digger Soft Glass Femme Fatale Fainting Would Hurt a Child Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Sociopath Laser-Guided Karma Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Villain Opening Scene Same Language Dub Disney Death Crapsack World Rule of Three The Faceless Lock and Load Montage Auto Erotica Reality Is Unrealistic Batman Gambit No Ending Closed Circle "The Reason You Suck" Speech Rule of Symbolism Dumb Blonde Hong Kong Films Storming the Castle Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Beauty Is Never Tarnished Broken Aesop Film Series The End... Or Is It? Jerk with a Heart of Gold Freudian Excuse Our Zombies Are Different Bullying a Dragon Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Public Domain Feature Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Disappeared Dad Call-Forward Off with His Head! Bloodier and Gorier The Un-Reveal Captain Ersatz My Beloved Smother Expy Drowning My Sorrows Pyrrhic Victory Wounded Gazelle Gambit Irony Italian Films Car Fu Belligerent Sexual Tension Pragmatic Adaptation Chekhov's Gunman Animal Motifs Retcon Coming-of-Age Story Loophole Abuse Documentary Left the Background Music On A Date with Rosie Palms The Quiet One Real Life Writes the Plot Unusually Uninteresting Sight Dutch Angle Funny Background Event Four-Temperament Ensemble Made of Explodium Slasher Smile Reckless Gun Usage Mythology Gag Adapted Out Horror Films Face Death with Dignity Covers Always Lie Meaningful Name Bound and Gagged "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Random Events Plot Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome In Name Only Guns Akimbo Police Brutality Would Hit a Girl Crazy-Prepared No Antagonist Woman in White Berserk Button Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Stealth Pun Redemption Equals Death Oh, Crap! The Film of the Book Bilingual Bonus Getting Crap Past the Radar The X of Y Sir Swears-a-Lot Flashback Overprotective Dad Tagline Villain with Good Publicity Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Breaking the Fourth Wall Ominous Latin Chanting Bond Villain Stupidity Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Sole Survivor Advertised Extra She Cleans Up Nicely Video Credits Gainax Ending Fantasy Films French Films Jerk Jock Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Black Dude Dies First Those Wacky Nazis Empathic Environment Mooks Eye Scream Ghost Fiction The Lost Lenore Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Naked People Are Funny Greater-Scope Villain Kick the Son of a Bitch Unreliable Narrator Fatal Flaw Noodle Incident Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas He Who Fights Monsters Dark and Troubled Past Fish out of Water Bare Your Midriff Never Found the Body Non-Indicative Name Tranquil Fury Conspicuous CG The Alcoholic You Have Failed Me Final Girl Evil Is Hammy You Killed My Father Shout-Out Big Damn Heroes Shown Their Work Reality Ensues Silent Movie My God, What Have I Done? 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Take a Third Option Cool Old Lady Chewing the Scenery The Hero Dies Race Lift Cassandra Truth Bavarian Fire Drill From Nobody to Nightmare No Name Given Sealed Evil in a Can Green-Eyed Monster Mercy Kill Cool Shades Dramedy Jitter Cam Artistic License – Physics Blackmail Chekhov's Gun All for Nothing I Did What I Had to Do Obstructive Bureaucrat In Medias Res Only One Name The '50s Evil Counterpart Well-Intentioned Extremist Your Cheating Heart What You Are in the Dark Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Adaptational Badass Cluster F-Bomb Author Appeal Ambiguously Gay Epic Fail Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Celebrity Paradox Index of Film Westerns Villainous Breakdown Break the Cutie Determinator aka: The Determinator Pet the Dog Continuity Nod Throwing Your Sword Always Works Mighty Whitey The Bad Guy Wins Recycled IN SPACE! Everyone Has Standards And the Adventure Continues Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Disney Villain Death Neck Snap Disproportionate Retribution Crazy Jealous Guy Death by Adaptation Central Theme Bowdlerise Badass Longcoat Really Gets Around Honor Before Reason Slasher Movie Big Bad Duumvirate Children Are Innocent Male Frontal Nudity My Greatest Failure Contrived Coincidence Diabolus ex Machina Easily Forgiven Call-Back Due to the Dead Damsel in Distress No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Insistent Terminology Hypocrite Lampshade Hanging In the Back Pragmatic Villainy Properly Paranoid Henpecked Husband Insult Backfire Men Are the Expendable Gender Card-Carrying Villain Make It Look Like an Accident All Men Are Perverts Jerkass Has a Point Badass Normal Combat Pragmatist Intergenerational Friendship Psycho for Hire Destination Defenestration Red Right Hand You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Reality Has No Subtitles Betty and Veronica Fire-Forged Friends Mood Whiplash An Arm and a Leg Stock Footage As the Good Book Says... 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Retired Badass Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Hero Red Herring Bolivian Army Ending Broken Bird Only Sane Man Beware the Nice Ones Distracted by the Sexy Antagonist Title Made of Iron The Vamp Match Cut Meaningful Echo The Mafia Danny Peary Cult Movies List Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Serious Business Death of a Child Hoist by His Own Petard Those Two Guys Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Famous Last Words Skewed Priorities Zombie Stories Australian Movies German Films Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Musical The Dog Bites Back Get Out! Karmic Death Action Survivor Mistaken for Gay Hypocritical Humor Hollywood Darkness Needs Wiki Magic Love Evil Plan The Voiceless Sadistic Choice Off-into-the-Distance Ending The '70s Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Extremely Short Timespan Improbable Aiming Skills An Aesop One-Man Army The Casanova Not So Different Dramatic Irony Race Against the Clock What the Hell, Hero? 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Adult Fear Brutal Honesty Motor Mouth Madness Mantra The Dreaded 20 Minutes into the Future Intrepid Reporter Wicked Cultured Vampire Fiction It's Personal Dissonant Serenity Framing Device Evil-Detecting Dog I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cool Old Guy Badass Boast Amusing Injuries Worthy Opponent Affably Evil I Have Your Wife Rich Bitch Agony of the Feet Taking You with Me Drives Like Crazy Narrator Accidental Murder Body Horror Revenge Dwindling Party As Himself Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Disguised in Drag Shoot the Shaggy Dog B-Movie Red Oni, Blue Oni