Tropescilloscope: Action Survivor

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

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Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Fourth Date Marriage Everyone Has Standards Not Using the "Z" Word Beauty Is Never Tarnished Overly Long Gag Real Life Ungrateful Bastard I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Cavalry Henpecked Husband Antagonist Title Rule of Symbolism Yandere Match Cut Would Hurt a Child No Ending Ominous Latin Chanting Abusive Parents Trailers Always Spoil Not Quite Dead She's Got Legs Darker and Edgier Ass Shove Mystery and Detective Films Spell My Name with an "S" Stealth Pun Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Chekhov's Skill Friend to All Children Dropped a Bridge on Him Big Fancy House And I Must Scream Action Prologue Artistic License – Law Fat Bastard Catch-Phrase Take a Third Option Cat Fight Gender Flip Black Dude Dies First Fire-Forged Friends Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Real Life Writes the Plot Adaptational Villainy Big Bad Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bloody Hilarious Damsel in Distress Blood from the Mouth Kill 'em All Politically Incorrect Villain Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Not So Above It All Calling the Old Man Out Affably Evil Cool Shades Downer Ending Badass Longcoat Even Evil Has Loved Ones Destination Defenestration Shower Scene Call-Forward Whole Plot Reference Up to Eleven Slap-Slap-Kiss Funny Background Event Implacable Man Insistent Terminology Dual Wielding Reckless Gun Usage Cold-Blooded Torture folderlabel Our Vampires Are Different Contrived Coincidence Freudian Excuse Beware the Nice Ones MacGuffin Costume Porn Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Enemy Mine Gory Discretion Shot Meaningful Name The Stoner Daddy's Girl Retcon Vomit Discretion Shot Brutal Honesty Despair Event Horizon Sexy Discretion Shot Reality Ensues Sanity Slippage Dutch Angle Slashed Throat The Film of the Book Facial Horror Product Placement Kick the Dog Fantastic Racism Japanese Films Scare Chord "The Reason You Suck" Speech Unwitting Instigator of Doom Playing Gertrude Establishing Character Moment Crapsack World Chiaroscuro Rape as Drama Idiot Ball In the Back Our Zombies Are Different Took a Level in Jerkass Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Neck Snap Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Truth in Television The Bad Guy Wins In Medias Res Serial Killer Have a Gay Old Time Tagline Creepy Child Author Appeal Hypocritical Humor Coming-of-Age Story Mama Bear Diabolus ex Machina Dogged Nice Guy She Cleans Up Nicely Fiery Redhead Sequel Escalation Taking the Bullet Determinator aka: The Determinator Ambiguous Ending Jump Scare Adorkable Redshirt Army All for Nothing Blatant Lies The Lancer Vitriolic Best Buds Here We Go Again! Fake Shemp Flashback Dramatic Irony Actor Allusion Adaptation Expansion Skewed Priorities The Smurfette Principle For Want of a Nail Reasonable Authority Figure A.I. Is a Crapshoot Batman Gambit Asshole Victim Scary Black Man Rousing Speech Body Horror Betty and Veronica Get Out! Red Eyes, Take Warning Four-Temperament Ensemble Bland-Name Product The Hero Dies Wide Open Deliberate Values Dissonance Heroes Want Redheads Index of Film Westerns And Starring Deal with the Devil Death of a Child Make It Look Like an Accident Be Careful What You Wish For Ugly Guy, Hot Wife A Father to His Men Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Humans Are Bastards Film Noir Index Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Soundtrack Dissonance N-Word Privileges timeperiod Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Stepford Smiler Drill Sergeant Nasty Psychological Thriller Pretty Little Headshots The End... Or Is It? Broken Bird Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! From Bad to Worse No-Sell Unresolved Sexual Tension Historical-Domain Character Card-Carrying Villain Black and Gray Morality Big Damn Heroes Failed a Spot Check Dying Moment of Awesome Faking the Dead Handicapped Badass Wham Line Suspiciously Specific Denial Mr. Fanservice Sadistic Choice Gainax Ending Cruel and Unusual Death The Alleged Car Noodle Incident Badass in a Nice Suit Anyone Can Die Reality Is Unrealistic Pimped-Out Dress Hooker with a Heart of Gold Camera Abuse The Bully Meaningful Echo Daylight Horror Shown Their Work Captain Obvious Motor Mouth Guile Hero Big-Bad Ensemble Off-into-the-Distance Ending Obfuscating Stupidity Mercy Kill Manly Tears Evil-Detecting Dog Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Male Gaze Guns Akimbo Butt-Monkey Fanservice Extra Action Girl Hair-Trigger Temper Genre Savvy Villain Opening Scene Show Within a Show Older Than They Look Bloodier and Gorier Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Leitmotif Overprotective Dad Smug Snake Worthy Opponent Manchild Parental Abandonment Driven to Suicide Children Are Innocent Ragtag Bunch of Misfits For the Evulz Bound and Gagged Hell Is That Noise Grey and Gray Morality Ambiguously Gay Historical Hero Upgrade This Is Gonna Suck Aside Glance Affectionate Parody Immune to Bullets Oh, Crap! Evil Is Petty Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Obviously Evil The Brute You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Token Minority Bunny-Ears Lawyer All There in the Script Romantic Comedy Christmas Movies Index Corrupt Corporate Executive Taking You with Me Superhero Naïve Newcomer Narrator Dramatic Gun Cock Insane Troll Logic Historical In-Joke Riddle for the Ages Ship Tease Stylistic Suck Bottomless Magazines Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Evil Plan Bar Brawl Distracted by the Sexy Smoking Is Cool Leave the Camera Running Animated Credits Opening Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Evil Sounds Deep A Date with Rosie Palms You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Self-Deprecation Covers Always Lie Serious Business Last-Name Basis Bullying a Dragon Foil Flipping the Bird Off with His Head! Pet the Dog Eagleland I Need a Freaking Drink '80s Hair Expository Hairstyle Change British Films Improvised Weapon Credits Gag Pragmatic Villainy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fantasy Films Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bloodless Carnage Air-Vent Passageway O.O.C. Is Serious Business Half the Man He Used to Be Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Camp Gay He Knows Too Much The '60s Book-Ends Adaptational Attractiveness Badass Normal Five-Man Band Dirty Old Man Pragmatic Adaptation Artistic License – History Chekhov's Gunman Badass Bookworm Fingore Berserk Button Death by Irony Jerkass Foreshadowing Intrepid Reporter Demonic Possession No Name Given "Shaggy Dog" Story Empathic Environment Video Credits Deliberately Monochrome Advertised Extra The Casanova Precision F-Strike The Place Bad Boss Country Matters Canadian Movies Rewatch Bonus Dramedy Bilingual Bonus Final Girl Put on a Bus The Cameo The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Grievous Bottley Harm Crazy Jealous Guy Big "NO!" Nice Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Nice Hat Authority Equals Asskicking Hollywood Law Artistic License – Military Pyrrhic Victory Arch-Enemy Horror Films Gilligan Cut Improbable Aiming Skills What the Hell, Hero? 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Epilogue Even Evil Has Standards Deconstruction Mugging the Monster Artistic License – Geography Face–Heel Turn Mind Screw Mooks Adults Are Useless Unreliable Narrator Man on Fire You Killed My Father Romantic False Lead Bait-and-Switch Rule of Funny Sassy Black Woman Almost Kiss Bring My Brown Pants Cool Car Small Name, Big Ego Adaptation Dye-Job Totally Radical The Ace Bi the Way Market-Based Title Knight Templar Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Stinger Informed Ability Not What It Looks Like Big Bad Duumvirate Throwing Your Sword Always Works All Girls Want Bad Boys Reality Has No Subtitles Hate Sink Dark Is Not Evil Defiant to the End The Ghost B-Movie Artistic License – Biology Wrong Genre Savvy Only Known by Their Nickname Big Brother Instinct Dark and Troubled Past Heel Realization All Just a Dream Anguished Declaration of Love Meet Cute Better to Die than Be Killed Missing Mom Hidden Depths Offscreen Teleportation As the Good Book Says... A God Am I Room Full of Crazy Easily Forgiven Bury Your Gays Once More, with Clarity! Bavarian Fire Drill Blood Knight The Starscream I Have Your Wife Monumental Damage Line-of-Sight Name Dark Action Girl After the End Pre-Asskicking One-Liner All There in the Manual Russian Films Sealed Evil in a Can Mr. Exposition Hong Kong Films Fatal Flaw Tempting Fate Extreme Doormat Lighter and Softer Drugs Are Bad Epic Fail Jerkass Has a Point Alliterative Name Eureka Moment Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Setting Update Break the Haughty Defrosting Ice Queen Plucky Comic Relief No Antagonist Celebrity Paradox Military and Warfare Films The Voiceless Took a Level in Badass Large Ham Aluminum Christmas Trees Animal Title Index Training Montage Faux Affably Evil Refuge in Audacity Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Double Entendre Combat Pragmatist Kids Are Cruel Eye Scream Fanservice The Remake War Is Hell Death Glare Adaptational Heroism How We Got Here Malevolent Masked Men Shut Up, Hannibal! Cassandra Truth Face Death with Dignity Bad "Bad Acting" Woman Scorned Arranged Marriage Disproportionate Retribution Shipper on Deck Mood Whiplash Leaning on the Fourth Wall Action Genre Adaptational Badass Bowdlerise Gorn Ms. Fanservice Arc Words The Dog Bites Back Dumb Blonde Intergenerational Friendship Famous Last Words Crazy-Prepared A Minor Kidroduction The Big Guy "Awesome McCool" Name Accidental Misnaming Super Strength Breaking the Fourth Wall Fun with Acronyms Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cool Old Guy Bond Villain Stupidity Villain Protagonist Ironic Echo Fainting Pay Evil unto Evil Lampshade Hanging Shirtless Scene Wretched Hive Adult Fear The Lost Lenore Brother–Sister Incest Spanner in the Works Shoot the Shaggy Dog Did Not Get the Girl Eldritch Abomination Sci-Fi Horror The Dragon Anti-Hero Manipulative Bastard The Ditz Science Fiction Films Black Best Friend Framing Device Important Haircut Naked People Are Funny The Mafia Curb-Stomp Battle Spiritual Successor Needs Wiki Magic Love Humiliation Conga Storming the Castle Dirty Cop Police Brutality Extremely Short Timespan Ambiguous Disorder Mexican Standoff Poor Communication Kills Italian Films There Is No Kill Like Overkill Funny Foreigner Married to the Job Vampire Fiction The X of Y Tranquil Fury Alpha Bitch Too Dumb to Live The Atoner Closed Circle Exact Words Gone Horribly Right Laser-Guided Karma Those Two Guys Stock Footage Fate Worse than Death Disguised in Drag Gratuitous English In Name Only Chekhov's Gun French Films What You Are in the Dark Villain with Good Publicity Heel–Face Turn Insult Backfire Beard of Evil Morality Pet Made of Explodium Historical Villain Upgrade German Films Evil Counterpart Determinator World of Ham Didn't Think This Through Sports Stories Loads and Loads of Characters Sir Swears-a-Lot Scenery Porn Happily Married Hollywood Darkness Say My Name Break the Cutie The Oner Cain and Abel Frame-Up Fan Disservice The '90s Pretty in Mink Outrun the Fireball Biopic Unusually Uninteresting Sight Redemption Equals Death Neck Lift Together in Death Honor Before Reason Brainless Beauty Police are Useless Straight Gay No OSHA Compliance The '70s Punny Name Decoy Protagonist Character Development Eiffel Tower Effect Annoying Younger Sibling Parental Incest