Tropescilloscope: A Father to His Men

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

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