Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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