Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

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

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