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