Tropescilloscope: Dogged Nice Guy

Persistent friendliness used in the hopes of making the object of a character's affections fall in love with them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Beauty Is Never Tarnished Big-Bad Ensemble Didn't Think This Through Red Eyes, Take Warning Police are Useless Bad Boss My Beloved Smother Tempting Fate Training Montage Ungrateful Bastard The Voiceless Improbable Aiming Skills No Celebrities Were Harmed In Name Only Sci-Fi Horror Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Loads and Loads of Characters Kubrick Stare Authority Equals Asskicking Cool Old Lady No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Greater-Scope Villain Gold Digger Film Noir Index An Aesop "The Reason You Suck" Speech Ambiguously Gay Chekhov's Gunman Historical In-Joke Villain Song No Name Given Adaptational Villainy Fanservice Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Black Comedy Spiteful Spit Chase Scene No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Becoming the Mask As Himself Dying Moment of Awesome Catch-Phrase Historical-Domain Character Alas, Poor Villain Television Movie Index MacGuffin Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Heel Realization Playing Gertrude Deconstruction Mighty Whitey Papa Wolf Hidden Depths Only Known by Their Nickname Dirty Cop Death by Adaptation Expy Lighter and Softer Parental Incest Annoying Younger Sibling Heroic BSoD Not Even Bothering with the Accent Pragmatic Villainy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Country Matters Toplessness from the Back '80s Hair Adaptation Dye-Job Took a Level in Badass Awesome, but Impractical Heroes Want Redheads Abhorrent Admirer The '80s Creative Closing Credits Friend to All Children Manic Pixie Dream Girl Not Using the "Z" Word Fantastic Racism Offscreen Teleportation Refuge in Audacity Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Atoner Ghost Fiction The Cavalry Five-Man Band Visual Pun Driven to Suicide Epic Fail Slap-Slap-Kiss The Dragon Get Out! Trailers Always Spoil Interrupted Suicide 20 Minutes into the Future O.O.C. Is Serious Business Drowning My Sorrows Bare Your Midriff Super Strength Author Avatar Crapsack World Actually Pretty Funny Those Two Guys Zombie Stories Setting Update Bloody Hilarious Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Funny Foreigner The Sociopath All Just a Dream Foregone Conclusion Cool Old Guy The Hero Action Survivor Mood Whiplash Henpecked Husband The Hero Dies This Is Gonna Suck A.I. Is a Crapshoot Humans Are Bastards Large Ham Naïve Newcomer From Nobody to Nightmare Sole Survivor Dark Is Not Evil Lampshade Hanging As the Good Book Says... Logo Joke Foil Good Is Not Nice Due to the Dead Diabolus ex Machina Truth in Television Smug Snake Early-Bird Cameo Sadistic Choice Death by Irony Red Oni, Blue Oni Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bond Villain Stupidity Empathic Environment Department of Redundancy Department Adults Are Useless Serial Killer Off with His Head! 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Epilogue Darkest Hour Anachronic Order Dark and Troubled Past Anti-Hero Adaptational Attractiveness Ripped from the Headlines Poor Communication Kills Broken Bird Serious Business Scare Chord Parental Neglect Covers Always Lie Mercy Kill In the Back Soft Glass Match Cut Scenery Porn Pet the Dog Captain Ersatz Badass Bookworm Did Not Get the Girl Call-Forward Token Minority Meaningful Name Defiant to the End Determinator aka: The Determinator A Father to His Men Damsel in Distress Line-of-Sight Name Taking the Bullet Half the Man He Used to Be Time Skip She Cleans Up Nicely Deal with the Devil Rated M for Manly Hoist by His Own Petard Gratuitous English Hell Is That Noise Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Chick The Chessmaster The '50s Sexy Discretion Shot Drill Sergeant Nasty Arch-Enemy Rule of Symbolism Red Shirt Handicapped Badass The Lancer Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Disproportionate Retribution Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Demonic Possession Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Those Wacky Nazis Adapted Out Downer Ending Suspiciously Similar Substitute Wretched Hive Psychological Thriller Bar Brawl Mythology Gag You Have Failed Me The Place Product Placement Sequel Escalation Sinister Minister Catapult Nightmare I Have Your Wife Improbable Weapon User Posthumous Character Adaptation Expansion Villain with Good Publicity And Starring Action Prologue I Need a Freaking Drink Wham Line Reality Is Unrealistic The Un-Reveal Mad Scientist Gainax Ending Offscreen Moment of Awesome Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Karmic Death Defrosting Ice Queen Christmas Movies Index No OSHA Compliance Laughing Mad The Quiet One Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Disney Villain Death Unreliable Narrator Genre Savvy Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dutch Angle Soundtrack Dissonance Break the Cutie Eureka Moment Never Trust a Trailer Russian Films True Companions Morality Pet Bi the Way Deadpan Snarker Book-Ends Eyepatch of Power Anachronism Stew Sassy Black Woman Self-Deprecation Retirony Stylistic Suck Skewed Priorities Only a Flesh Wound Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Ambiguous Ending Bald of Evil Fatal Flaw Take a Third Option Male Frontal Nudity Dull Surprise Dissonant Serenity Artistic License – Law Heel–Face Turn Undying Loyalty NO INDOOR VOICE Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sports Stories Dies Wide Open Darker and Edgier He Who Fights Monsters Not Quite Dead Vomit Discretion Shot The Cameo Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Brute Here We Go Again! 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Silence Is Golden Chiaroscuro Vampire Fiction Documentary Monumental Damage One Steve Limit Bad "Bad Acting" Scenery Gorn Word of God Children Are Innocent Cruel and Unusual Death Taking You with Me What Happened to the Mouse? Evil Sounds Deep Last-Name Basis Hate Sink Badass Grandpa Pimped-Out Dress Age Lift Worthy Opponent Villainous Breakdown Malevolent Masked Men What the Hell, Hero? Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Narrator Took a Level in Jerkass Science Fiction Films Fun with Acronyms Despair Event Horizon Historical Villain Upgrade Wicked Cultured Amusing Injuries Sealed Evil in a Can Getting Crap Past the Radar Fourth Date Marriage No-Sell Informed Ability Red Herring Room Full of Crazy Pay Evil unto Evil Adult Fear Redshirt Army Femme Fatale Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Mexican Standoff Fish out of Water Bilingual Bonus Black and Gray Morality German Films Spared by the Adaptation Your Head A-Splode Enemy Mine Intrepid Reporter Manchild After the End Distracted by the Sexy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold No Antagonist Kick the Dog Faking the Dead Lock and Load Montage Blood from the Mouth You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane An Arm and a Leg Establishing Character Moment Better to Die than Be Killed Woman Scorned Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ax-Crazy Pretty in Mink