Tropescilloscope: Historical Hero Upgrade

Fictionalized portrayal of a historical figure as more heroic than their real-life counterpart. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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