Tropescilloscope: Superhero

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

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