Tropescilloscope: Superhero

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

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