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