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)

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