Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

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

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