Tropescilloscope: What the Hell, Hero?

The hero gets called out on acting unheroically. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Car Fu Curb-Stomp Battle One-Word Title Determinator Foreshadowing BFG Cool Car Belligerent Sexual Tension Informed Ability Based on a True Story Death by Adaptation Hero of Another Story Show Within a Show Historical Villain Upgrade Betty and Veronica Historical-Domain Character Would Hurt a Child Big Applesauce Actor Allusion Shut Up, Hannibal! Artistic License – Geography Precision F-Strike Made of Iron Hong Kong Films Idiot Ball Villain Opening Scene Leave the Camera Running Genre Shift Hidden Depths Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Television Movie Index Bittersweet Ending Bowdlerise Rewatch Bonus Adaptational Attractiveness From Nobody to Nightmare Expy Here We Go Again! Neck Snap Bar Brawl Loophole Abuse What the Hell, Hero? The Dragon timeperiod The Remake Really Gets Around Drowning My Sorrows It's Personal Villain Song Beware the Nice Ones No Ending Creepy Child Abusive Parents Bavarian Fire Drill Manipulative Bastard Cowboy Cop Translation Convention Logo Joke The Dog Bites Back Rasputinian Death Victoria's Secret Compartment Meaningful Echo Failed a Spot Check In Name Only Retired Badass Big-Bad Ensemble Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Plucky Comic Relief Martial Arts Movie Black Dude Dies First Funny Background Event Stuff Blowing Up He Knows Too Much War Is Hell O.O.C. Is Serious Business Fate Worse than Death Evil Plan Wounded Gazelle Gambit Paper-Thin Disguise Meaningful Name Air-Vent Passageway Insistent Terminology Cool Old Lady Sci-Fi Horror Freudian Excuse Tagline Destination Defenestration Sexy Discretion Shot Protagonist Title Ship Tease Wrong Genre Savvy Vampire Fiction Animal Motifs Let's Get Dangerous! Artistic License – Biology Break the Cutie Mama Bear Thriller The '70s Dark Reprise All Just a Dream Even Evil Has Loved Ones Ironic Echo Amusing Injuries Dies Wide Open Epic Fail Naked People Are Funny Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cluster F-Bomb The Un-Reveal Final Girl Take That! Grievous Bottley Harm Black Comedy Rape Mythology Gag Manly Tears Alas, Poor Villain Famous Last Words Henpecked Husband Fanservice Would Hit a Girl Crucified Hero Shot And I Must Scream Not So Stoic Face–Heel Turn Downer Ending Ax-Crazy Captain Ersatz 20 Minutes into the Future Getting Crap Past the Radar Yandere As the Good Book Says... Japanese Films Cool Shades Anguished Declaration of Love Romantic False Lead Bait-and-Switch Older Than They Look Aside Glance Once More, with Clarity! Depraved Bisexual Mistaken for Gay Villain with Good Publicity Gratuitous English Setting Update Jerkass Word of God Trailers Always Spoil Humans Are Bastards Defiant to the End Vomit Indiscretion Shot Hypocritical Humor Funny Foreigner Parental Incest Dull Surprise Last-Name Basis Fatal Family Photo Deus ex Machina The Smart Guy Children Are Innocent Continuity Nod Soundtrack Dissonance Scary Black Man Put on a Bus Together in Death Fat Bastard Heroes Want Redheads French Films Totally Radical Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Get Out! It Can Think Cat Fight There Is No Kill Like Overkill Australian Movies Blood Knight Public Domain Feature Films Non-Indicative Name Cruel and Unusual Death German Films Grey and Gray Morality Five-Man Band Arranged Marriage Whole Plot Reference Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mr. Exposition From Bad to Worse Posthumous Character Rule of Funny Bland-Name Product Ascended Extra Cassandra Truth The Alcoholic Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Guy Author Avatar Leitmotif The X of Y Catch-Phrase The Quiet One Laughing Mad Suspiciously Similar Substitute Suspiciously Specific Denial Have a Gay Old Time Badass in a Nice Suit Pre-Mortem One-Liner Hollywood Law Obfuscating Stupidity Crapsack World The Stoic Karma Houdini Deadpan Snarker Cloudcuckoolander Sassy Black Woman Dressing as the Enemy Nice Guy Only in It for the Money Names to Run Away from Really Fast Captain Obvious I Did What I Had to Do Silence Is Golden The Lancer Sir Swears-a-Lot Fiery Redhead Military and Warfare Films Big Eater Bound and Gagged Shell-Shocked Veteran Bad Boss Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Chewing the Scenery Alpha Bitch Bond Villain Stupidity Sacrificial Lion This Is Gonna Suck Badass Longcoat Attempted Rape Deliberately Monochrome Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Arch-Enemy Ungrateful Bastard Shoot the Shaggy Dog Redemption Equals Death Spell My Name with an "S" Sequel Escalation The Chick Ambiguous Ending Laser-Guided Karma Reckless Gun Usage Suddenly SHOUTING! Take a Third Option Even Evil Has Standards Shower Scene Everyone Has Standards Leaning on the Fourth Wall Groin Attack Deal with the Devil Plot Hole Four-Temperament Ensemble Knife Nut Mooks Time Skip No Name Given Camera Abuse Major Injury Underreaction What Happened to the Mouse? Lock and Load Montage Title Drop An Arm and a Leg In the Back Heel Realization The Oner You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Ghost A Minor Kidroduction Nice Hat How We Got Here Straight Gay Sinister Minister Artistic License – History No Antagonist Manic Pixie Dream Girl Anachronism Stew Daylight Horror Developing Doomed Characters Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Drives Like Crazy