Tropescilloscope: The Hero

The central character who performs heroic deeds with a heroic motivation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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