Tropescilloscope: Big Damn Heroes

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

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