Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

An overall pleasant character with no glaringly dark traits. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Evil vs. Evil Cat Scare Genre Shift For Want of a Nail Australian Movies Cluster F-Bomb Stepford Smiler Manic Pixie Dream Girl Faking the Dead Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas One Steve Limit Vampire Fiction Coming-of-Age Story Shower Scene Cloudcuckoolander Big "NO!" Driven to Suicide Fourth Date Marriage The '90s Scenery Porn Arch-Enemy Left the Background Music On Peek-a-Boo Corpse The '70s Romantic False Lead Cold-Blooded Torture Twist Ending Bad Boss Continuity Nod Implacable Man Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Exactly What It Says on the Tin Antagonist Title Ambiguous Ending The Stoner Irony It Can Think Sealed Evil in a Can Funny Foreigner How We Got Here Roaring Rampage of Revenge Badass Grandpa Authority Equals Asskicking Never My Fault Slashed Throat Karmic Death Unspoken Plan Guarantee No-Sell Karma Houdini Neck Snap Badass Longcoat Hidden Depths The Alcoholic Belligerent Sexual Tension Fiery Redhead Blackmail Idiot Ball Refuge in Audacity Author Appeal Affectionate Parody Alas, Poor Villain Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Death of a Child Fatal Family Photo Corrupt Corporate Executive Intergenerational Friendship You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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The Reveal Shown Their Work folderlabel Playing Gertrude Crapsack World Cool Guns Freudian Excuse Expository Hairstyle Change Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Adaptational Attractiveness Canadian Movies Extremely Short Timespan Downer Ending Amoral Attorney Small Name, Big Ego I Did What I Had to Do One-Man Army Laser-Guided Karma Closed Circle Pragmatic Adaptation Cowboy Cop Badass Bookworm Stalker with a Crush Mercy Kill Captain Ersatz Betty and Veronica Country Matters Silent Movie The Starscream Unresolved Sexual Tension German Films Fun with Acronyms Kids Are Cruel Stealth Hi/Bye Cool Shades In Name Only Slasher Movie Breaking the Fourth Wall Retirony The End... Or Is It? Frame-Up This Is Gonna Suck Daddy's Girl As Long as It Sounds Foreign Hero Antagonist Recycled IN SPACE! Scary Black Man Artistic License – Gun Safety Conspicuous CG Fat Bastard Butt-Monkey The Stinger Deus ex Machina Mr. Fanservice Sexy Discretion Shot Loads and Loads of Characters Mundane Made Awesome No OSHA Compliance Hell Is That Noise Gold Digger Monumental Damage Gainax Ending Knife Nut Award-Bait Song Really Gets Around My Beloved Smother Retcon The Hero The Alleged Car Visual Pun Screw This, I'm Outta Here! I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ripped from the Headlines The Great Depression Adaptation Name Change Ass Shove Pyrrhic Victory Suddenly SHOUTING! Green-Eyed Monster Getting Crap Past the Radar Police are Useless Time Skip Adaptational Badass Improbable Weapon User All Just a Dream Morality Pet The Atoner Henpecked Husband Redshirt Army Armor-Piercing Question Lampshade Hanging Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Darkest Hour Only a Flesh Wound Call-Forward Break the Haughty Dwindling Party Deliberate Values Dissonance Fantastic Racism What the Hell, Hero? Wrong Genre Savvy Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Epic Fail Actor Allusion Older Than They Look Dark Action Girl Becoming the Mask Annoying Younger Sibling Major Injury Underreaction Wretched Hive Gender Flip Truth in Television Blatant Lies Honor Before Reason Insistent Terminology Reality Ensues Bilingual Bonus Captain Obvious Broken Pedestal The Dragon Throwing Your Sword Always Works Brutal Honesty Word of God Loophole Abuse Canon Foreigner Ominous Latin Chanting Public Domain Feature Films Kick the Dog Depraved Bisexual Villain Song As You Know All Men Are Perverts Nice Guy Retired Badass More Dakka Batman Gambit Rewatch Bonus Male Gaze The Sociopath Sir Swears-a-Lot Black Best Friend Celebrity Paradox Anti-Hero Decoy Protagonist Flipping the Bird Failed a Spot Check Not What It Looks Like Freeze-Frame Bonus Black and Gray Morality Same Language Dub Eye Scream French Films Cat Fight Ungrateful Bastard Madness Mantra Made of Iron Reality Has No Subtitles Not Using the "Z" Word Evil Counterpart Hero of Another Story Romantic Comedy Actually Pretty Funny Put on a Bus Heel–Face Turn Maybe Ever After Pet the Dog Mood Whiplash Neck Lift Storming the Castle