Tropescilloscope: Hooker with a Heart of Gold

The sex worker who cares. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Chewing the Scenery Leave the Camera Running Back from the Dead Didn't Think This Through Not What It Looks Like Humans Are Bastards Wham Line The X of Y Police are Useless Camp Gay True Companions Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Faking the Dead Bottomless Magazines Shipper on Deck Lampshade Hanging Offscreen Teleportation Jerk Jock Well-Intentioned Extremist The Ace Men Are the Expendable Gender Affably Evil Celebrity Paradox Deliberately Monochrome This Is Gonna Suck Catch-Phrase Body Horror Fate Worse than Death Line-of-Sight Name Artistic License – Gun Safety What You Are in the Dark B-Movie Retired Badass The Brute "Shaggy Dog" Story Jerk with a Heart of Gold Straight Gay Sequel Escalation Villain Song Beauty Is Never Tarnished Reality Ensues Jerkass Has a Point Big Bad Duumvirate Superhero Big Eater Novelization Fake Shemp Big Damn Heroes My Beloved Smother Final Girl No OSHA Compliance Adaptation Dye-Job Red Right Hand The Stinger Captain Ersatz Fourth Date Marriage Unreliable Narrator Oh, Crap! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Not Using the "Z" Word Actually Pretty Funny Darker and Edgier Film Noir Index Anachronic Order Let's Get Dangerous! Bilingual Bonus Only One Name Armor-Piercing Question Kids Are Cruel Wretched Hive Mythology Gag Alliterative Name Advertised Extra Same Language Dub What Happened to the Mouse? No Antagonist Femme Fatale Anyone Can Die Bad Boss I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Shut Up, Hannibal! Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Great Depression Spell My Name with an "S" Decoy Protagonist Christmas Movies Index After the End Yandere Five-Man Band Creepy Child Mr. Fanservice Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Ironic Echo Manipulative Bastard Rule of Symbolism Breaking the Fourth Wall Cruel and Unusual Death Irony Gender Flip Crazy Jealous Guy Jitter Cam Papa Wolf The Quiet One Ominous Latin Chanting Scenery Porn Anti-Villain Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Those Wacky Nazis She's Got Legs Vacation Films Mind Screw Intergenerational Friendship I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Canadian Movies Made of Explodium Blatant Lies Stalker with a Crush Pet the Dog Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Non-Indicative Name Homage Bound and Gagged Depraved Bisexual Slasher Smile Funny Background Event Genre Shift 20 Minutes into the Future Arranged Marriage Author Appeal Together in Death Break the Haughty Curse Cut Short The Chick Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Smoking Is Cool Grievous Bottley Harm All There in the Script Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Voiceless Reality Has No Subtitles Rule of Cool Would Hurt a Child Sports Stories Re-Cut Action Genre Taking You with Me Red Shirt Sole Survivor Mooks Ghost Fiction Japanese Films Word of God Badass in a Nice Suit Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Pragmatic Villainy Gorn Shout-Out Precision F-Strike Mood Whiplash Have a Gay Old Time Unresolved Sexual Tension Honor Before Reason Flipping the Bird No Celebrities Were Harmed Get Out! The '80s Not So Above It All The Power of Love As the Good Book Says... Corrupt Corporate Executive Zombie Stories Defiant to the End Boom, Headshot! Big-Bad Ensemble Totally Radical Bavarian Fire Drill Beware the Nice Ones Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dramedy Whole Plot Reference Pretty in Mink Parental Substitute Our Vampires Are Different The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Continuity Nod Badass Grandpa Ambiguously Gay Dark Reprise Disappeared Dad Pragmatic Adaptation Coming-of-Age Story Chekhov's Skill Evil Laugh Costume Porn Thriller Running Gag Even Evil Has Standards Fish out of Water Race Lift Villainous Breakdown Alas, Poor Villain Sassy Black Woman Reality Is Unrealistic Betty and Veronica The Bully Death by Sex Hidden Depths Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Pay Evil unto Evil Vitriolic Best Buds Once More, with Clarity! Twist Ending Missing Mom Evil Brit Parental Neglect Sealed Evil in a Can Blood from the Mouth You Have Failed Me Bullying a Dragon "Well Done, Son!" 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Brick Joke Suspiciously Specific Denial Martial Arts Movie Vomit Discretion Shot Contrived Coincidence Abusive Parents May–December Romance Enemy Mine Shirtless Scene Exactly What It Says on the Tin Trailers Always Spoil Bloody Hilarious Unwitting Instigator of Doom Authority Equals Asskicking Batman Gambit Rule of Funny The Stoic Sinister Minister Hate Sink Rousing Speech And I Must Scream Belligerent Sexual Tension Hell Is That Noise Action Girl Eyepatch of Power Dissonant Serenity Freudian Excuse Accidental Murder The Atoner Ms. Fanservice As Himself Crazy-Prepared Mr. Exposition Paper-Thin Disguise Disproportionate Retribution Even Evil Has Loved Ones Logo Joke Aside Glance Expository Hairstyle Change Facial Horror Adaptation Distillation Made of Iron Australian Movies Wham Shot Frame-Up The Place Cat Fight Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Race Against the Clock Big Bad Ambiguous Ending Psycho for Hire Heel–Face Turn Fatal Family Photo Punch-Clock Villain Villain Opening Scene O.O.C. Is Serious Business Translation Convention Cold-Blooded Torture Redshirt Army Downer Ending Unspoken Plan Guarantee World of Ham Action Prologue Reckless Gun Usage Monumental Damage Bloodless Carnage Real Life Rich Bitch All There in the Manual Foil Neck Lift Plot Hole Insistent Terminology Composite Character Dogged Nice Guy A Minor Kidroduction Up to Eleven Overly Long Gag The Faceless The Dreaded Romantic Comedy Guns Akimbo Dramatic Irony La Résistance Creative Closing Credits Heroic Sacrifice Bland-Name Product Truth in Television Video Credits The Dog Bites Back Black Dude Dies First Foreshadowing Fantastic Racism Bare Your Midriff Dropped a Bridge on Him Hollywood Darkness Would Hit a Girl Plucky Comic Relief Almost Kiss Improbable Aiming Skills Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping One-Man Army Mundane Made Awesome Big Fancy House Chase Scene Annoying Younger Sibling Kick the Dog Lock and Load Montage The '90s Cassandra Truth Drowning My Sorrows Ambiguous Disorder Empathic Environment Double Entendre Break the Cutie French Films Cloudcuckoolander Take That! For Want of a Nail Animal Motifs Manly Tears Chiaroscuro Dumb Blonde For the Evulz Redemption Equals Death folderlabel Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Villain Ball Your Cheating Heart Shell-Shocked Veteran Ass Shove Earn Your Happy Ending Due to the Dead Stuff Blowing Up Woman in White Kick the Son of a Bitch Silence Is Golden Nothing Is Scarier Pyrrhic Victory Implacable Man Light Is Not Good Setting Update Cluster F-Bomb Death by Adaptation One-Word Title Kill It with Fire Badass Bookworm Gold Digger I Need a Freaking Drink Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun And the Adventure Continues Insult Backfire Broken Bird Sci-Fi Horror Ax-Crazy Television Movie Index Romantic False Lead Artistic License – Physics Stepford Smiler Book-Ends Death Seeker Anti-Hero The Hero Sacrificial Lion Victoria's Secret Compartment And Starring Conspicuous CG Hero Antagonist Motor Mouth Face–Heel Turn The Dragon Distracted by the Sexy Broken Pedestal Madness Mantra The End... Or Is It? 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A Date with Rosie Palms Nice Guy Alpha Bitch Actor Allusion Friend to All Children Taking the Bullet Mama Bear Politically Incorrect Villain The Smurfette Principle No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Brother–Sister Incest Call-Back Room Full of Crazy Riddle for the Ages Bad "Bad Acting" Historical Villain Upgrade A.I. Is a Crapshoot Music Stories Dressing as the Enemy Death by Irony Overprotective Dad Soft Glass Hoist by His Own Petard Male Frontal Nudity Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cool Old Guy Be Careful What You Wish For Smug Snake Artistic License – History