Tropescilloscope: The Lancer

The Hero's foil and The Leader's trusted companion. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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