Tropescilloscope: Hero of Another Story

They have their own adventures, you just don't get to see them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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