Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

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

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