Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

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

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