Tropescilloscope: Action Survivor

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

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