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