Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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