Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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