Tropescilloscope: Papa Wolf

Mess with his kids, and he will end you. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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