Tropescilloscope: Heroes Want Redheads

The redhead has the best chances of getting it on with The Protagonist. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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