Tropescilloscope: Anti-Hero

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

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