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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German Films Artistic License – Geography Every Car Is a Pinto Adult Fear Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Kubrick Stare Faking the Dead Jerk Jock Extreme Doormat Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Evil Is Petty Blood Knight Documentary Dirty Old Man Public Domain Feature Films Eureka Moment Unreliable Narrator MacGuffin Evil Plan Hidden Depths Informed Ability Casting Gag Spiteful Spit All Just a Dream Scenery Gorn Extremely Short Timespan Heroic Sacrifice What You Are in the Dark Guile Hero Despair Event Horizon Developing Doomed Characters Bond Villain Stupidity Composite Character Dutch Angle Punch-Clock Villain Italian Films Music Stories Ambiguous Disorder Nothing Is Scarier 20 Minutes into the Future Foreshadowing As Long as It Sounds Foreign I Have Your Wife Up to Eleven Credits Gag Race Against the Clock Call-Forward Dirty Cop Laser-Guided Karma Empathic Environment Mama Bear Cat Scare Oh, Crap! Precision F-Strike Police Brutality Smug Snake Canadian Movies Batman Gambit Toplessness from the Back Kick the Dog Silence Is Golden Bare Your Midriff Storming the Castle Ungrateful Bastard Rasputinian Death No-Sell Manly Tears Woman Scorned Revenge My God, What Have I Done? Eyepatch of Power Bad Boss Imagine Spot Accidental Murder Amusing Injuries Adaptational Badass Non-Indicative Name Immune to Bullets Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dropped a Bridge on Him Posthumous Character Captain Ersatz Villain Protagonist Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Asshole Victim Car Fu Fourth Date Marriage Stepford Smiler Not What It Looks Like Humans Are Bastards Say My Name Continuity Nod And Starring An Arm and a Leg Coming-of-Age Story The '80s Kill 'em All Costume Porn Exact Words Blatant Lies Market-Based Title Sexy Discretion Shot Artistic License – Physics Irony The Cameo Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Adapted Out Tap on the Head Straight Gay No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Everyone Has Standards Together in Death Never Found the Body Calling the Old Man Out The Big Guy Downer Ending Anyone Can Die Rape as Drama Big Eater Tranquil Fury Outrun the Fireball One-Man Army One-Word Title Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Crazy Jealous Guy Captain Obvious The Dog Bites Back Naked People Are Funny Insult Backfire Brutal Honesty Throwing Your Sword Always Works Soundtrack Dissonance Stylistic Suck Killed Mid-Sentence Heroes Want Redheads Epic Fail Heroic BSoD Pimped-Out Dress Video Credits Kids Are Cruel Very Loosely Based on a True Story Worthy Opponent Hope Spot Fatal Flaw For Want of a Nail Serial Killer Reckless Gun Usage You Have Failed Me Only a Flesh Wound Anti-Hero It's All About Me N-Word Privileges Aside Glance Red Oni, Blue Oni Dogged Nice Guy Adaptational Attractiveness A.I. Is a Crapshoot Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Evil Is Hammy Psychological Thriller Green-Eyed Monster Zombie Stories Big Bad Freeze-Frame Bonus Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Red Herring