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