Tropescilloscope: What the Hell, Hero?

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

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