Tropescilloscope: What the Hell, Hero?

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

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Dull Surprise Adults Are Useless Adaptation Distillation Kill It with Fire Epic Movie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Anachronism Stew Book-Ends Aluminum Christmas Trees Action Survivor Non-Indicative Name The Remake Genre Shift Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Dirty Coward Beware the Nice Ones The Vamp Enemy Mine Real Life Writes the Plot Fanservice Extra Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Sociopath Time Skip Body Horror Scare Chord Camp Gay Novelization Villain Opening Scene timeperiod Animal Motifs Chiaroscuro Black Comedy Rape Ascended Extra Ambiguous Ending Hollywood Darkness Anguished Declaration of Love Nice Guy Sacrificial Lion Only Sane Man Extreme Doormat The Chick A Date with Rosie Palms Adaptational Attractiveness Took a Level in Badass Let's Get Dangerous! 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Is Serious Business Madness Mantra Failed a Spot Check Dressing as the Enemy Gender Flip Brainless Beauty Victoria's Secret Compartment BFG Obstructive Bureaucrat The Dreaded Tagline Suspiciously Similar Substitute Funny Foreigner Foreshadowing Have a Gay Old Time La Résistance Those Two Guys Costume Porn Kick the Son of a Bitch Tempting Fate Adaptation Name Change Market-Based Title Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ax-Crazy Crazy-Prepared MacGuffin Artistic License – Law Cool Guns The Cameo Wrong Genre Savvy The Smart Guy Hoist by His Own Petard Drugs Are Bad Hollywood Law Up to Eleven Breaking the Fourth Wall Defiant to the End Truth in Television Pay Evil unto Evil Deliberately Monochrome Last-Name Basis Intergenerational Friendship Honor Before Reason Actually Pretty Funny Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Sexy Discretion Shot Romantic False Lead Off with His Head! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Overprotective Dad Race Against the Clock Lock and Load Montage Camera Abuse The Casanova Curb-Stomp Battle Works Set in World War II Index of Film Westerns "Well Done, Son!" Guy Arc Words Psychopathic Manchild Rule of Three Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Call-Forward Early-Bird Cameo Cowboy Cop Dwindling Party Children Are Innocent Epic Fail The '90s Decoy Protagonist Groin Attack Film Noir Cassandra Truth Only Known by Their Nickname Manic Pixie Dream Girl Shipper on Deck Wounded Gazelle Gambit Visual Pun Rule of Cool Your Cheating Heart Due to the Dead Narrator Together in Death Downer Ending Ominous Latin Chanting Arranged Marriage Sealed Evil in a Can Arch-Enemy Mighty Whitey Bloodier and Gorier Dissonant Serenity Artistic License – Military Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Vitriolic Best Buds Punch-Clock Villain B-Movie Leaning on the Fourth Wall Corpsing Unusual Euphemism Retcon Not So Above It All Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Throwing Your Sword Always Works Exact Words Character Development Training Montage Badass Grandpa "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue All There in the Script Disguised in Drag Slasher Smile Beta Couple Bury Your Gays Red Oni, Blue Oni Car Fu German Films Celebrity Paradox Stuff Blowing Up Plucky Comic Relief Evil Is Hammy Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Same Language Dub Noodle Incident The Starscream Freeze-Frame Bonus Disappeared Dad Dark Reprise Bullying a Dragon Brick Joke Pragmatic Adaptation Award-Bait Song Death by Adaptation Accidental Misnaming Film Noir Index Casting Gag Auto Erotica Roaring Rampage of Revenge Small Name, Big Ego Genre Throwback Broken Aesop In the Back The Bully Anyone Can Die Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Artistic License – Physics Kids Are Cruel Mr. Exposition Took a Level in Jerkass Naked People Are Funny Darker and Edgier A.I. Is a Crapshoot Karmic Death Well-Intentioned Extremist Disney Villain Death Plot Hole Boom, Headshot! Half the Man He Used to Be Heel–Face Turn True Companions Dual Wielding Crazy Jealous Guy Artistic License – Biology Meaningful Name The Mole Adaptation Dye-Job Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Scenery Porn Informed Ability Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Riddle for the Ages Aside Glance Word of God Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptation Expansion Once More, with Clarity! Real Life Fantastic Racism Laser-Guided Karma Married to the Job Superhero Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Jump Scare Better to Die than Be Killed Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Getting Crap Past the Radar Spared by the Adaptation Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Authority Equals Asskicking Mundane Made Awesome Title Drop Green-Eyed Monster Revenge Good Is Not Nice Lighter and Softer Ambiguously Gay Fat Bastard Jerk Jock What Happened to the Mouse? 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She Cleans Up Nicely Daylight Horror Cluster F-Bomb Hidden Depths Card-Carrying Villain The X of Y Not Quite Dead Dumb Blonde Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The '60s You Have Failed Me Captain Obvious Black Comedy Empathic Environment You Killed My Father Soundtrack Dissonance Animated Credits Opening Hell Is That Noise Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Henpecked Husband Logo Joke Red Herring Evil-Detecting Dog Music Stories Morality Pet The Reveal Lampshade Hanging Properly Paranoid Anti-Villain Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Thriller A Father to His Men All Girls Want Bad Boys Fanservice Vomit Discretion Shot Worthy Opponent Not So Stoic Catch-Phrase One-Man Army Break the Haughty Fate Worse than Death Flashback Death Seeker Heterosexual Life-Partners Wretched Hive Distracted by the Sexy Flipping the Bird Affably Evil Slashed Throat Death by Sex No Good Deed Goes Unpunished What the Hell, Hero? Improbable Weapon User Hero of Another Story Martial Arts Movie Evil Is Petty Serial Killer Mistaken for Gay Kick the Dog Bring My Brown Pants Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Offscreen Moment of Awesome No-Sell The Ditz Artistic License – Gun Safety Age Lift As the Good Book Says... Love Triangle Obviously Evil Star-Crossed Lovers Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Captain Ersatz Suddenly SHOUTING! Coming-of-Age Story Immune to Bullets Five-Man Band Darkest Hour Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Heroes Want Redheads Domestic Abuse The End... Or Is It? Wham Shot Irony Fingore Friend to All Children The Hero Ungrateful Bastard Break the Cutie The Mafia It Will Never Catch On Handicapped Badass "Awesome McCool" Name Mr. Fanservice Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Framing Device Retired Badass For Want of a Nail Overly Long Gag Shoot the Shaggy Dog Dropped a Bridge on Him Twist Ending Christmas Movies Index The Ace Berserk Button Fan Disservice Funny Background Event Big Applesauce War Is Hell Line-of-Sight Name Large Ham Hooker with a Heart of Gold She's Got Legs Never Found the Body Off-into-the-Distance Ending Determinator aka: The Determinator Undying Loyalty The Lost Lenore Foil Mind Screw Cool Car Does This Remind You of Anything? 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