Tropescilloscope: Friend to All Children

Anyone who's good with kids can't be all that bad. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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