Tropescilloscope: Anti-Hero

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

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