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