Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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