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