Tropescilloscope: The Hero

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

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