Tropescilloscope: What the Hell, Hero?

The hero gets called out on acting unheroically. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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