Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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