Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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