Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

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

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