Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

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

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