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