Tropescilloscope: Nice Guy

An overall pleasant character with no glaringly dark traits. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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