Tropescilloscope: Disappeared Dad

The dad is absent. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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