Tropescilloscope: Action Survivor

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

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