Tropescilloscope: Disappeared Dad

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

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