Tropescilloscope: Dogged Nice Guy

Persistent friendliness used in the hopes of making the object of a character's affections fall in love with them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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