Tropescilloscope: What the Hell, Hero?

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

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