Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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