Tropescilloscope: Hero of Another Story

They have their own adventures, you just don't get to see them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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