Tropescilloscope: Disappeared Dad

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

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