Tropescilloscope: A Father to His Men

Fatherly figure in the military. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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