Tropescilloscope: Action Survivor

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

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