Superhero Tropes

Tropes common to the Superhero genre, be it comics, film, TV, or radio drama.

Tropes
Related:
 * Legacy Tropes
 * The Index Team

Categories:
 * The Ages of Super Hero Comics
 * Standard Superhero Suits
 * Stock Super Powers


 * Adaptive Armor
 * Alliterative Name
 * Alternate Company Equivalent
 * Alternate Continuity
 * Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome
 * Animal-Themed Superbeing
 * Anti-Climactic Unmasking
 * Badass Cape
 * Badass Normal
 * Bat Signal
 * Beware the Superman
 * Boxing Lessons for Superman
 * Brought Down to Normal
 * Brought Down to Badass
 * Brought to You By The Letter "S"
 * Bruce Wayne Held Hostage
 * Building Swing
 * Burning Building Rescue
 * Bus Full of Innocents
 * By the Power of Grayskull
 * The Cape
 * Cape Busters
 * Captain Ersatz
 * Captain Ethnic
 * Captain Geographic
 * Captain Patriotic
 * Captain Superhero
 * Charles Atlas Superpower
 * Chest Insignia
 * Chrome Champion
 * Civvie Spandex
 * Clark Kenting
 * Clingy Costume
 * Coat, Hat, Mask
 * Code Name
 * Color Character
 * Comes Great Responsibility
 * Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames
 * The Commissioner Gordon
 * Corporate-Sponsored Superhero
 * Costumed Nonsuper Hero
 * Cover-Blowing Superpower
 * The Cowl
 * Create Your Own Villain
 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check
 * Dark Age of Supernames
 * Dating Catwoman
 * Deadly Training Area
 * Death-Activated Superpower
 * Differently-Powered Individual
 * Disability Superpower
 * Disposable Superhero Maker
 * Domino Mask
 * Dork Age
 * Enlightenment Superpowers
 * Evil Costume Switch
 * Fad Super
 * Fight Off the Kryptonite
 * Fights Like a Normal
 * Freak Lab Accident
 * Future Spandex
 * Going for The Big Scoop
 * The Good Captain
 * Good Thing You Can Heal
 * Gratuitous Animal Sidekick
 * Heart Is an Awesome Power
 * Hero With Bad Publicity
 * Heroic Build
 * Heroic Fatigue
 * Heroic Host
 * Heroic Vow
 * Thou Shalt Not Kill
 * Holding Out for A Hero
 * How to Give A Character Super Powers
 * I Believe I Can Fly
 * Identity Impersonator
 * Idiosyncrazy
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Imagination-Based Superpower
 * I'm Not a Hero, I'm X
 * In a Single Bound
 * Innocent Bystander Series
 * The Jailer
 * Keep the Home Fires Burning
 * Kryptonite Factor
 * Kryptonite Is Everywhere
 * Kryptonite Ring
 * Kryptonite-Proof Suit
 * Man of Kryptonite
 * Lamarck Was Right
 * Legacy Character
 * Legacy Implosion
 * Legacy Launch
 * Leotard of Power
 * Lighthearted Rematch
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * Magic Pants
 * Marked Change
 * The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
 * Mass Super-Empowering Event
 * Meta Origin
 * Military Superhero
 * Monster Modesty
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
 * Most Common Superpower
 * Movie Superheroes Wear Black
 * My Significance Sense Is Tingling
 * New Powers As the Plot Demands
 * Never Be a Hero
 * Nineties Anti-Hero
 * Not the Fall That Kills You
 * Not Wearing Tights
 * One Person, One Power
 * Personality Powers
 * Phlebotinum Battery
 * Power Creep, Power Seep
 * Power Nullifier
 * Premature Empowerment
 * Psychic Nosebleed
 * Psychic Radar
 * Psychosomatic Superpower Outage
 * Puberty Superpower
 * Randomly-Gifted
 * Reckless Sidekick
 * Reed Richards Is Useless
 * Re-Power
 * Required Secondary Powers
 * Rich Idiot With No Day Job
 * Rogues Gallery
 * Rogues Gallery Showcase
 * Rogues Gallery Transplant
 * Run the Gauntlet
 * Samaritan Syndrome
 * Secret-Chaser
 * Secret Identity
 * Secret Identity Change Trick
 * Secret Identity Identity
 * Secret Keeper
 * Secret Public Identity
 * Semantic Superpower
 * Single-Power Superheroes
 * Shooting Superman
 * Sidekick
 * Kid Sidekick
 * Sidekick Glass Ceiling
 * Sidekick Graduations Stick
 * Slave to PR
 * Something Person
 * Spandex, Latex, or Leather
 * Star-Spangled Spandex
 * Steven Ulysses Perhero
 * Stock Superhero Day Jobs
 * Stock Super Powers
 * Strong As They Need to Be
 * Super Empowering
 * Super-Hero Gods
 * Superheroes Stay Single
 * Superheroes Wear Capes
 * Superheroes Wear Tights
 * Superhero Packing Heat
 * Superhero Prevalence Stages
 * Super-Hero School
 * Super-Hero Origin
 * Superhero Paradox
 * Superhero Sobriquets
 * Super-Hero Speciation
 * Superhero Trophy Shelf
 * Super Human Trafficking
 * Superman Stays Out of Gotham
 * Superpower Lottery
 * Superpowers for A Day
 * Super-Powered Alter Ego
 * Super-Powered Evil Side
 * Superpower Meltdown
 * Superpower Silly Putty
 * Super Registration Act
 * Super Rug Pull
 * Super Serum
 * Super Villain
 * Superhuman Transfusion
 * Swiss Army Superpower
 * Thememobile
 * Trainstopping
 * Traumatic Superpower Awakening
 * Trick Arrow
 * Thematic Rogues Gallery
 * Triple Shifter
 * Two First Names
 * The Unmasking
 * Un-Sorcerer
 * Up, Up, and Away
 * Utility Belt
 * Villain Team-Up
 * Wall Crawl
 * Weaksauce Weakness
 * We Can Rebuild Him
 * West Coast Team
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
 * Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
 * With Great Power Comes Great Perks
 * Wonder Twin Powers
 * World's Strongest Man
 * X-Ray Vision