Tropescilloscope: Anti-Hero

A hero who lacks the proper traits of The Hero. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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