Tropescilloscope: Heroes Want Redheads

The redhead has the best chances of getting it on with The Protagonist. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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