Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

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

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