Tropescilloscope: A Father to His Men

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

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