Tropescilloscope: A Father to His Men

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

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