Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

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

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