Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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