Tropescilloscope: Action Survivor

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

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