Tropescilloscope: Action Survivor

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

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