Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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