Tropescilloscope: Hero of Another Story

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

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