Tropescilloscope: Action Survivor

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

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