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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Cold-Blooded Torture Wretched Hive Awesome, but Impractical Camera Abuse Rich Bitch Accidental Murder A Father to His Men A God Am I Evil Counterpart Kubrick Stare Developing Doomed Characters Big Applesauce Kill It with Fire Hypocrite The Remake Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Costume Porn Smoking Is Cool Wrong Genre Savvy Arc Words Actor Allusion The Great Depression Get Out! He Who Fights Monsters Brutal Honesty Bloodless Carnage Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Peek-a-Boo Corpse There Is No Kill Like Overkill Chase Scene Put on a Bus It's Personal Badass Longcoat Adaptation Expansion Darkest Hour Thriller Continuity Nod Fatal Family Photo Vacation Films Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Very Loosely Based on a True Story I Need a Freaking Drink Aside Glance Deliberate Values Dissonance Anyone Can Die Loads and Loads of Characters Chewing the Scenery Only Sane Man The Sociopath Throwing Your Sword Always Works Anti-Villain Anguished Declaration of Love Slasher Smile Star-Crossed Lovers Bald of Evil Cat Scare As Long as It Sounds Foreign Crazy-Prepared Villain Ball Mr. Fanservice Japanese Films Black Comedy Rape Evil-Detecting Dog Adaptation Distillation Revenge Improbable Weapon User You Killed My Father Novelization Badass in a Nice Suit The Bully Married to the Job Hero of Another Story Hell Is That Noise Bond Villain Stupidity Off with His Head! Henpecked Husband Cain and Abel Happily Married Decoy Protagonist Camp Gay Dumb Blonde Enemy Mine Yandere Broken Aesop Drugs Are Bad Implacable Man Establishing Character Moment Deliberately Monochrome Bring My Brown Pants Names to Run Away from Really Fast Disney Villain Death Plot Hole Due to the Dead Improbable Aiming Skills Abusive Parents Artistic License – Physics Tagline Defiant to the End The Un-Reveal Adaptational Villainy Refuge in Audacity Beauty Is Never Tarnished Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Light Is Not Good Unwitting Instigator of Doom Scare Chord Sequel Hook Does Not Like Shoes Christmas Movies Index The Cavalry Military and Warfare Films Authority Equals Asskicking Shown Their Work French Films Leave the Camera Running Determinator aka: The Determinator Super Strength The '50s Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping British Films The Lancer The Place Let's Get Dangerous! 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Creator Cameo Sequel Escalation As Himself Rule of Symbolism Shirtless Scene Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Ripped from the Headlines My Beloved Smother Mercy Kill Mythology Gag What Happened to the Mouse? Fire-Forged Friends Pretty in Mink All for Nothing Country Matters Well-Intentioned Extremist Drowning My Sorrows Amoral Attorney Face–Heel Turn Our Zombies Are Different Made of Iron No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Film of the Book Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Kids Are Cruel Retcon Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Covers Always Lie More Dakka Department of Redundancy Department Double Entendre Affably Evil You Have Failed Me Translation Convention Mighty Whitey Humiliation Conga Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Suddenly SHOUTING! Unresolved Sexual Tension Papa Wolf Hope Spot Really Gets Around Creative Closing Credits Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Handicapped Badass Antagonist Title Foregone Conclusion Contrived Coincidence Big Bad Duumvirate N-Word Privileges Match Cut The Brute Bad Boss Dutch Angle Missing Mom Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Would Hurt a Child Taking the Bullet Dramedy Rape as Drama Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Animated Credits Opening Random Events Plot folderlabel Pretty Little Headshots Pet the Dog Depraved Bisexual Soundtrack Dissonance Adorkable Interrupted Suicide Bullying a Dragon An Aesop Cool Guns Nothing Is Scarier Knight Templar Vampire Fiction Ambiguously Gay Femme Fatale The Alcoholic Every Car Is a Pinto Token Minority Insult Backfire Cool Old Guy I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Genre Throwback "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bavarian Fire Drill Villainous Breakdown Jerk Jock Motor Mouth Slasher Movie Not Even Bothering with the Accent Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Genre Savvy Time Skip Psychological Thriller No-Sell Take a Third Option Rousing Speech Cowboy Cop Ascended Extra Ironic Echo Jerkass Has a Point Gory Discretion Shot Demoted to Extra Precision F-Strike Mundane Made Awesome Together in Death Vomit Discretion Shot Character Development Deadpan Snarker Real Life Writes the Plot Badass Boast Gone Horribly Right Heroic Sacrifice Older Than They Look Dirty Coward Meaningful Echo Guile Hero Ms. Fanservice Playing Gertrude Narrator The Dog Bites Back 20 Minutes into the Future Self-Deprecation Big "NO!" 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Damsel in Distress Broken Pedestal The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite For the Evulz Villain Opening Scene Ax-Crazy Neck Lift The Quiet One True Companions Dark Action Girl Mind Screw Visual Pun Worthy Opponent Jitter Cam Suspiciously Specific Denial Love Triangle Call-Back Karmic Death Not Using the "Z" Word Fantastic Racism Running Gag Evil Brit Documentary The Chick Heel–Face Turn Unreliable Narrator Public Domain Feature Films Vitriolic Best Buds Your Head A-Splode Shoot the Shaggy Dog Gender Flip Car Fu Cruel and Unusual Death Stepford Smiler Catapult Nightmare Evil Sounds Deep Off-into-the-Distance Ending Armor-Piercing Question Gold Digger Sadistic Choice Red Right Hand Didn't Think This Through Dirty Cop Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Small Name, Big Ego Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun And the Adventure Continues Spanner in the Works Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fish out of Water Chekhov's Skill Neck Snap Pre-Mortem One-Liner And I Must Scream Mexican Standoff Fingore Daylight Horror Not So Different For Want of a Nail Canon Foreigner Punny Name Stylistic Suck Artistic License – History Four-Temperament Ensemble Lighter and Softer Genre Shift Manchild A Minor Kidroduction Obfuscating Stupidity Dark Reprise Alliterative Name Wicked Cultured Horror Films Improvised Weapon Faux Affably Evil Shipper on Deck Asshole Victim Big Bad Redemption Equals Death The Dreaded Heel Realization Shower Scene Whole Plot Reference Romantic False Lead Intergenerational Friendship In Medias Res "Well Done, Son!" Guy Nice Guy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Disappeared Dad Market-Based Title The Starscream Better to Die than Be Killed Action Survivor Retirony Never My Fault Tranquil Fury Real Life Show Within a Show Driven to Suicide Broken Bird The Mafia Manipulative Bastard Age Lift Becoming the Mask The Smurfette Principle Reality Has No Subtitles Police Brutality Dropped a Bridge on Him Fatal Flaw Moment Killer Fanservice Extra Our Vampires Are Different Fun with Acronyms Silent Movie Bound and Gagged O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bury Your Gays Diabolus ex Machina Hong Kong Films Male Frontal Nudity Here We Go Again! Flipping the Bird Skewed Priorities Freeze-Frame Bonus This Is Gonna Suck Corrupt Corporate Executive Rule of Cool "Shaggy Dog" Story Riddle for the Ages Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dull Surprise Mr. Exposition Posthumous Character Children Are Innocent Adaptational Attractiveness Greater-Scope Villain Dark and Troubled Past Badass Bookworm Setting Update Villain with Good Publicity Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Lock and Load Montage The Faceless Obviously Evil Grey and Gray Morality Creepy Child Black and Gray Morality Final Girl Coming-of-Age Story Race Lift The Dragon The Alleged Car The Stoic Once More, with Clarity! 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