Tropescilloscope: Big Brother Instinct

Never fear! Big Bro/Sis/Sib (biological or figurative) is here to protect you! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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