Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

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

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