Tropescilloscope: Superhero

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

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