Tropescilloscope: Big Brother Instinct

Never fear! Big Bro/Sis/Sib (biological or figurative) is here to protect you! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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