Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

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

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Red Oni, Blue Oni Laughing Mad Dramatic Gun Cock Dumb Blonde Amusing Injuries Would Hit a Girl Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Truth in Television Badass Bookworm Men Are the Expendable Gender Improbable Weapon User Sealed Evil in a Can Berserk Button Dutch Angle British Films Homage Hell Is That Noise The Bully Jerkass Has a Point Foreshadowing Flashback Anti-Villain Big Brother Instinct Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Grievous Bottley Harm Pay Evil unto Evil Paper-Thin Disguise Jerk Jock Shut Up, Hannibal! Our Zombies Are Different Cool Car Jitter Cam Villain Opening Scene Anyone Can Die Authority Equals Asskicking Fatal Family Photo Domestic Abuse Very Loosely Based on a True Story Race Against the Clock Half the Man He Used to Be Sports Stories Despair Event Horizon "Well Done, Son!" 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Meaningful Background Event Developing Doomed Characters The Casanova Black and Gray Morality Asshole Victim Mr. Exposition Cloudcuckoolander The Bad Guy Wins Butt-Monkey Every Car Is a Pinto The Sociopath Beware the Nice Ones Disproportionate Retribution Disney Villain Death Dies Wide Open Shirtless Scene Vampire Fiction Henpecked Husband Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Abhorrent Admirer Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dark Reprise Eyepatch of Power Black Best Friend Overly Long Gag MacGuffin Hero of Another Story Bittersweet Ending Informed Ability Spiritual Successor Shoot the Shaggy Dog Animated Credits Opening Mythology Gag Dark Action Girl Mercy Kill Dark and Troubled Past Artistic License – History Does This Remind You of Anything? 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