Tropescilloscope: Superhero

Stories where the hero has superhuman abilities. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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