Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

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

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