Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

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

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