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