Tropescilloscope: Anti-Hero

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

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