Tropescilloscope: Taking the Bullet

Shielding someone with your own body. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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