Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

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

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