Tropescilloscope: A Father to His Men

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

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