Tropescilloscope: A Father to His Men

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

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Show Within a Show Half the Man He Used to Be Undying Loyalty Actor Allusion Overprotective Dad How We Got Here Henpecked Husband Leaning on the Fourth Wall Mythology Gag Refuge in Audacity Break the Cutie Eldritch Abomination Attempted Rape World of Ham Babies Ever After Brother–Sister Incest Bi the Way Didn't Think This Through Biopic Nothing Is Scarier Villain Opening Scene It Can Think Meaningful Echo Not Using the "Z" Word Bloodless Carnage Recycled IN SPACE! Anti-Villain Worthy Opponent Due to the Dead Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Rule of Cool Adaptational Attractiveness Our Vampires Are Different Mistaken for Gay Outrun the Fireball Conspicuous CG Love at First Sight Ripped from the Headlines Non-Indicative Name Have a Gay Old Time No-Sell Maybe Ever After Disney Villain Death In the Back Jerkass Has a Point Heroic BSoD Alas, Poor Villain Dropped a Bridge on Him Easily Forgiven Artistic License – Geography Getting Crap Past the Radar Fan Disservice Historical In-Joke Evil-Detecting Dog Rated M for Manly The '70s Moment Killer Rewatch Bonus Creepy Child Central Theme "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Revenge Properly Paranoid Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Bare Your Midriff NO INDOOR VOICE Action Prologue Those Two Bad Guys Title Drop Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Villain with Good Publicity Horror Comedy Sinister Minister The Load Only Known by Their Nickname Composite Character Playing Gertrude Big Applesauce Domestic Abuse Get Out! 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Berserk Button Dark Action Girl Karmic Death Anguished Declaration of Love Made of Explodium Drugs Are Bad Comically Missing the Point She's Got Legs Shell-Shocked Veteran Deus ex Machina Villain Song Race Against the Clock Good Is Not Nice Fiery Redhead Abusive Parents Back from the Dead Translation Convention Madness Mantra Defrosting Ice Queen The '80s The Casanova Becoming the Mask Lock and Load Montage Blackmail Noodle Incident Manipulative Bastard Famous Last Words Large Ham Facial Horror Curb-Stomp Battle Stealth Hi/Bye Faking the Dead It Will Never Catch On The Big Guy Imagine Spot Bound and Gagged Hidden Depths Intergenerational Friendship Big-Bad Ensemble Face Death with Dignity Captain Ersatz Death of a Child Instant Death Bullet Dark and Troubled Past Sanity Slippage Badass Grandpa The Stoic Roaring Rampage of Revenge True Companions Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Twist Ending Foreshadowing Precision F-Strike Broken Pedestal An Axe to Grind Corpsing It's All About Me BFG Chekhov's Gun It's Personal For the Evulz Visual Pun Daddy's Girl Red Eyes, Take Warning Unusual Euphemism Rule of Symbolism Break the Haughty Together in Death Evil Brit Hero Antagonist Totally Radical Adorkable Film Noir Casting Gag Author Avatar The '50s Armor-Piercing Question Bad "Bad Acting" May–December Romance The Atoner Deliberate Values Dissonance The Alcoholic Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Manly Tears Dogged Nice Guy The Smurfette Principle Curse Cut Short Alpha Bitch Asshole Victim Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Reality Is Unrealistic The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Dual Wielding Gorn Vampire Fiction Mugging the Monster Dying Moment of Awesome Authority Equals Asskicking Neck Snap Sealed Evil in a Can Distracted by the Sexy No OSHA Compliance Cool Car Sassy Black Woman Auto Erotica Plot Hole Market-Based Title Men Are the Expendable Gender The Cavalry And I Must Scream Unwitting Instigator of Doom Taking You with Me Kids Are Cruel Italian Films What Happened to the Mouse? Immune to Bullets Adaptation Name Change Final Girl Pre-Mortem One-Liner Shown Their Work Foil Missing Mom Gender Flip From Bad to Worse Narrator Lampshade Hanging Beta Couple Pyrrhic Victory Fingore "Awesome McCool" Name The Reveal Cat Scare Homage Novelization Shoot the Shaggy Dog Blood from the Mouth Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Unresolved Sexual Tension Paper-Thin Disguise Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dirty Coward Death by Irony For Want of a Nail An Aesop Belligerent Sexual Tension Mr. Fanservice Stepford Smiler Credits Gag Guns Akimbo Not So Different The Film of the Book Morality Pet Double Entendre The Dog Bites Back Soft Glass Despair Event Horizon Cold-Blooded Torture Running Gag In Medias Res Drives Like Crazy Gratuitous English Mexican Standoff Determinator aka: The Determinator Depraved Bisexual Every Car Is a Pinto Badass Boast Bolivian Army Ending