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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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism You Have Failed Me Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Retirony Break the Cutie From Bad to Worse Anti-Villain Dramatic Gun Cock Cloudcuckoolander Jerk Jock Race Against the Clock "The Reason You Suck" Speech Blatant Lies Call-Forward Not So Above It All Soft Glass Villain Opening Scene My Greatest Failure Adults Are Useless Protagonist Title Antagonist Title Evil Laugh Gender Flip Almost Kiss Television Movie Index The Hero Leaning on the Fourth Wall Kick the Dog What You Are in the Dark Broken Bird Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Deliberately Monochrome Jerk with a Heart of Gold Country Matters The Stoic Your Cheating Heart Final Girl Not What It Looks Like Interrupted Suicide Make It Look Like an Accident Twist Ending Dramedy Star-Crossed Lovers Anti-Hero Heel–Face Turn Early Installment Weirdness Major Injury Underreaction May–December Romance Works Set in World War II Homage Recycled IN SPACE! This Is Gonna Suck Death by Sex Deliberate Values Dissonance Dressing as the Enemy Aluminum Christmas Trees Kick the Son of a Bitch The Cameo Italian Films Deus ex Machina In Medias Res Pragmatic Villainy Daddy's Girl Neck Lift Creative Closing Credits Author Appeal My Beloved Smother No Name Given Adaptational Badass Get Out! Does Not Like Shoes Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Anyone Can Die Psychological Thriller Gratuitous English Never Found the Body The Big Guy Humiliation Conga Manic Pixie Dream Girl Meaningful Echo Peek-a-Boo Corpse Time Skip One Steve Limit Sports Stories Imagine Spot Fantastic Racism The Sociopath Black Best Friend The Alleged Car Naïve Newcomer Red Eyes, Take Warning Boom, Headshot! 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Half the Man He Used to Be The Hero Dies No OSHA Compliance Ass Shove Vitriolic Best Buds Gorn Idiot Ball Big Eater Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Rape as Drama Psycho for Hire Morality Pet Slap-Slap-Kiss Black Comedy Dissonant Serenity The Oner Extremely Short Timespan Cool Car An Axe to Grind Reckless Gun Usage Dumb Blonde Breaking the Fourth Wall Foregone Conclusion Not Quite Dead As the Good Book Says... Extreme Doormat Darkest Hour Stylistic Suck Spared by the Adaptation Sequel Hook Rule of Three Fun with Acronyms Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Shirtless Scene The Bad Guy Wins From Nobody to Nightmare Aside Glance Say My Name No Antagonist Storming the Castle Tempting Fate Honor Before Reason Psychopathic Manchild In Name Only The Smart Guy Hero of Another Story Take That! 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Beauty Is Never Tarnished Badass Longcoat Frame-Up Dying Moment of Awesome Important Haircut Didn't Think This Through Damsel in Distress Only in It for the Money NO INDOOR VOICE The '70s Humans Are Bastards There Is No Kill Like Overkill Playing Gertrude Spiritual Successor War Is Hell Monumental Damage Babies Ever After Dirty Coward Took a Level in Badass Getting Crap Past the Radar The Starscream Heroic Sacrifice Those Two Bad Guys Together in Death The Stoner Drill Sergeant Nasty No-Sell Madness Mantra Amoral Attorney Curse Cut Short All Just a Dream Slasher Smile Abusive Parents Chewing the Scenery Punny Name Deadpan Snarker Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Hypocritical Humor Pyrrhic Victory Amusing Injuries "Well Done, Son!" 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Belligerent Sexual Tension Beware the Nice Ones Adaptation Dye-Job Too Dumb to Live Ambiguously Gay Villain Protagonist Villain Song Training Montage An Arm and a Leg Grey and Gray Morality Creepy Child Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Celebrity Paradox Arranged Marriage The Musical Refuge in Audacity Older Than They Look Brainless Beauty Disguised in Drag Obstructive Bureaucrat The Great Depression Intrepid Reporter You Killed My Father Coming-of-Age Story The Quiet One Dual Wielding Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Epic Movie Left the Background Music On Badass Normal Really Gets Around Dark and Troubled Past Fatal Family Photo Berserk Button All There in the Script Chiaroscuro Eureka Moment As Himself Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dies Wide Open Line-of-Sight Name Parental Abandonment Combat Pragmatist Retcon Sealed Evil in a Can Irony Evil Counterpart Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Taking the Bullet Skewed Priorities Dark Reprise Face Death with Dignity It's Personal The Brute "Shaggy Dog" Story The '50s Did Not Get the Girl Sexy Discretion Shot Married to the Job Only One Name Insane Troll Logic Early-Bird Cameo Beard of Evil Take a Third Option Empathic Environment Expy Our Zombies Are Different Would Hurt a Child Rule of Cool Suspiciously Similar Substitute Biopic Same Language Dub Call-Back Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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