Tropescilloscope: Superhero

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

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