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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Is Serious Business The Load Driven to Suicide Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Catapult Nightmare Tagline Antagonist Title Whole Plot Reference Older Than They Look MacGuffin Not So Above It All The Voiceless Eiffel Tower Effect Fan Disservice Chekhov's Gunman Blatant Lies Soft Glass Ambiguous Disorder Hero of Another Story Arranged Marriage Adaptation Name Change Heel Realization Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Mama Bear Fate Worse than Death Badass Bookworm Have a Gay Old Time Age Lift Arch-Enemy The Smart Guy Despair Event Horizon Death Glare Imagine Spot Military and Warfare Films Hollywood Darkness Oh, Crap! Peek-a-Boo Corpse Serial Killer All There in the Manual Chewing the Scenery Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Nothing Is Scarier Blood from the Mouth Kubrick Stare Spell My Name with an "S" Dropped a Bridge on Him Boom, Headshot! 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Is a Crapshoot The Faceless Curb-Stomp Battle Green-Eyed Monster Your Cheating Heart The Quiet One Spiritual Successor Wretched Hive Badass Longcoat Mugging the Monster Manly Tears Implacable Man Irony Off-into-the-Distance Ending Stealth Hi/Bye An Axe to Grind Dissonant Serenity Biopic Up to Eleven She's Got Legs Alpha Bitch I Have Your Wife Neck Snap Damsel in Distress Action Genre Broken Bird Gorn Cloudcuckoolander Redshirt Army Historical-Domain Character Blood Knight Wicked Cultured The Dragon Disney Death It Will Never Catch On Composite Character Title Drop Loads and Loads of Characters Darker and Edgier Celebrity Paradox Brother–Sister Incest The Musical Madness Mantra Let's Get Dangerous! 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Rule of Symbolism Men Are the Expendable Gender Brick Joke Dirty Cop Slasher Smile Character Development Properly Paranoid Based on a True Story Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Unusual Euphemism Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Alcoholic Insane Troll Logic Only Known by Their Nickname Drowning My Sorrows Psycho for Hire Hypocrite Hero Antagonist Token Minority Red Eyes, Take Warning Mexican Standoff Male Gaze Coming-of-Age Story Handicapped Badass Evil Plan Show Within a Show All Girls Want Bad Boys It's All About Me Funny Foreigner Reality Has No Subtitles Eyepatch of Power One Steve Limit And the Adventure Continues Offscreen Moment of Awesome Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Chick Bittersweet Ending The Bully Big-Bad Ensemble Mad Scientist Wham Line Evil Sounds Deep Bunny-Ears Lawyer Evil Counterpart Beta Couple Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Call-Back Pyrrhic Victory Humiliation Conga Big Eater Awesome, but Impractical Captain Obvious Dwindling Party "Shaggy Dog" Story Expository Hairstyle Change No Name Given Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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