Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

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

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Ghost Fiction Sinister Minister Babies Ever After Fun with Acronyms Ship Tease The Ace Belligerent Sexual Tension The Oner Older Than They Look Wrong Genre Savvy Chekhov's Gunman Gold Digger Mugging the Monster Fan Disservice Kids Are Cruel Fire-Forged Friends Ambiguous Ending The Sociopath Flashback Deliberate Values Dissonance Curse Cut Short Apocalypse How Rasputinian Death Large Ham Epic Movie Mexican Standoff The Faceless Break the Haughty Wham Line Sealed Evil in a Can Idiot Ball Documentary Running Gag Face–Heel Turn Jerkass Has a Point The Load Would Hit a Girl Darkest Hour Curb-Stomp Battle Chiaroscuro All Just a Dream Rule of Symbolism Married to the Job Dark and Troubled Past Downer Ending Captain Ersatz Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Lock and Load Montage Public Domain Feature Films Freudian Excuse A Minor Kidroduction Christmas Movies Index Nice Guy Sole Survivor Smoking Is Cool Sequel Escalation Red Eyes, Take Warning Bloody Hilarious Unusual Euphemism Pragmatic Villainy Poor Communication Kills Big Fancy House Only Sane Man Film Noir Taking You with Me Dogged Nice Guy Wounded Gazelle Gambit Artistic License – History Villainous Breakdown Line-of-Sight Name La Résistance Cain and Abel Well-Intentioned Extremist Killed Mid-Sentence All There in the Script I Need a Freaking Drink Dropped a Bridge on Him Made of Explodium Police are Useless Anguished Declaration of Love Deadpan Snarker Made of Iron Dirty Coward Faking the Dead Broken Pedestal Bittersweet Ending Enemy Mine Say My Name Throwing Your Sword Always Works Meaningful Background Event Faux Affably Evil My Beloved Smother For the Evulz Dual Wielding Beware the Nice Ones Heel–Face Turn Mooks And the Adventure Continues Gender Flip Ambiguously Gay Narrator Humiliation Conga Shell-Shocked Veteran Bolivian Army Ending Cloudcuckoolander Soft Glass Distracted by the Sexy Stealth Pun Book-Ends Mr. Fanservice Cool Old Lady Chekhov's Gun Pragmatic Adaptation All for Nothing Villain Ball Blatant Lies The Big Guy It Can Think The Starscream Spiteful Spit Demonic Possession Country Matters Dramatic Irony Make It Look Like an Accident The Vamp Shirtless Scene