Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

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

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