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