Tropescilloscope: Superhero

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

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