Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

A dramatic rescue by the heroes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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