Tropescilloscope: Superhero

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

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