Tropescilloscope: Friend to All Children

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

More Tropes The Lancer Adult Fear All There in the Manual Maybe Ever After Artistic License – History Bullying a Dragon Drugs Are Bad Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Peek-a-Boo Corpse Fake Shemp Parental Abandonment Playing Gertrude Canadian Movies Scenery Gorn Sinister Minister Unreliable Narrator Genre Savvy Rasputinian Death In Medias Res Five-Man Band True Companions The Bully Take a Third Option Annoying Younger Sibling Victoria's Secret Compartment Arranged Marriage An Aesop Knight Templar Lampshade Hanging Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Index of Film Westerns Artistic License – Gun Safety Adorkable MacGuffin Domestic Abuse Big Bad Duumvirate Non-Indicative Name Sacrificial Lion Animal Title Index Captain Ersatz Despair Event Horizon Corpsing Foregone Conclusion The Dragon As You Know Death of a Child Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fantasy Films Manipulative Bastard Humiliation Conga Disney Villain Death The Remake Shirtless Scene Real Life Undying Loyalty Affably Evil Drives Like Crazy All Men Are Perverts Karma Houdini Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Batman Gambit The Starscream Diabolus ex Machina Only in It for the Money Pyrrhic Victory Cold-Blooded Torture Killed Mid-Sentence Film Noir Epic Movie Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience It's Personal Crucified Hero Shot Shown Their Work Actor Allusion Facial Horror Slap-Slap-Kiss Spell My Name with an "S" Say My Name Madness Mantra Race Lift Bi the Way Improbable Aiming Skills Evil Sounds Deep Large Ham Creator Cameo Does This Remind You of Anything? Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Never My Fault Catch-Phrase Faking the Dead Names to Run Away from Really Fast Poor Communication Kills Badass Normal Freeze-Frame Bonus Those Two Guys Bloodless Carnage Whole Plot Reference Heel Realization Unresolved Sexual Tension Henpecked Husband Blackmail Villain Opening Scene Red Herring Aside Glance Badass Bookworm The Reveal Knife Nut Pet the Dog Contrived Coincidence Not What It Looks Like Only Sane Man Canon Foreigner Show Within a Show Match Cut Face–Heel Turn The Un-Reveal Grievous Bottley Harm Brainless Beauty Only Known by Their Nickname Smug Snake Exactly What It Says on the Tin Morality Pet Mind Screw Random Events Plot The '70s Hypocritical Humor Married to the Job Epic Fail Toplessness from the Back Comically Missing the Point Works Set in World War II Chase Scene Covers Always Lie Villain with Good Publicity Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Decoy Protagonist Big Brother Instinct Better to Die than Be Killed Freudian Excuse Mexican Standoff No Name Given Curse Cut Short Red Shirt French Films 20 Minutes into the Future From Bad to Worse And I Must Scream Rewatch Bonus Gone Horribly Right The Lost Lenore Big Fancy House Riddle for the Ages Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Ace Wrong Genre Savvy The Quiet One Dull Surprise Only a Flesh Wound No Ending Last-Name Basis Light Is Not Good Spared by the Adaptation Getting Crap Past the Radar Slasher Movie Red Oni, Blue Oni Police are Useless Mythology Gag Let's Get Dangerous! Stylistic Suck Composite Character The '50s Stock Footage Funny Foreigner Break the Cutie Rape as Drama Trailers Always Spoil Disguised in Drag Chiaroscuro Closed Circle The Load Redemption Equals Death It Can Think After the End Television Movie Index I Have Your Wife Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The End... Or Is It? Based on a True Story Australian Movies Cloudcuckoolander Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Your Cheating Heart Rule of Three Bowdlerise Expository Hairstyle Change Anyone Can Die Bald of Evil Meaningful Background Event Obviously Evil Danny Peary Cult Movies List Retired Badass Action Girl Fanservice Red Right Hand Refuge in Audacity Reasonable Authority Figure Darkest Hour Sexy Discretion Shot Cool Guns No Celebrities Were Harmed Have a Gay Old Time Bloodier and Gorier Film Series Bait-and-Switch Motor Mouth Time Skip Our Vampires Are Different Music Stories Authority Equals Asskicking Animal Motifs What the Hell, Hero? Adapted Out Stepford Smiler Big Damn Heroes Public Domain Feature Films Fourth Date Marriage Chekhov's Skill Token Minority My Greatest Failure Camp Gay Deus ex Machina Shower Scene Fire-Forged Friends Spiritual Successor Historical In-Joke Malevolent Masked Men Guile Hero Evil Laugh Dramatic Gun Cock Ascended Extra My Beloved Smother Video Credits Even Evil Has Standards As Long as It Sounds Foreign All Just a Dream Worthy Opponent Offscreen Moment of Awesome Department of Redundancy Department Irony Does Not Like Shoes Romantic Comedy Ambiguous Ending Reality Ensues Betty and Veronica Up to Eleven Hope Spot Gold Digger Karmic Death Early-Bird Cameo Plot Hole Villain Song Nothing Is Scarier Humans Are Bastards O.O.C. Is Serious Business Male Frontal Nudity Overprotective Dad Deconstruction Alpha Bitch Dirty Old Man Idiot Ball The X of Y Faux Affably Evil Cain and Abel Take That! Foreshadowing Pretty in Mink Deliberately Monochrome Air-Vent Passageway Drowning My Sorrows Car Fu Ripped from the Headlines The Alcoholic Punny Name Handicapped Badass Suspiciously Similar Substitute Not So Above It All All Girls Want Bad Boys Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Belligerent Sexual Tension Recycled IN SPACE! Leave the Camera Running Novelization "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Pretty Little Headshots Alas, Poor Villain Your Head A-Splode Training Montage The Ghost Corrupt Corporate Executive Those Wacky Nazis The Smart Guy Broken Bird Horror Comedy Market-Based Title The Place Romantic False Lead Bad Boss Hoist by His Own Petard Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Ass Shove Back from the Dead Exact Words Evil Counterpart As Himself Psycho for Hire Deliberate Values Dissonance Never Found the Body Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Half the Man He Used to Be Christmas Movies Index Combat Pragmatist Cruel and Unusual Death What Happened to the Mouse? Darker and Edgier Well-Intentioned Extremist Badass Boast The Faceless Dramatic Irony For the Evulz Black Comedy Rape Adaptation Distillation Children Are Innocent Intergenerational Friendship Revenge He Knows Too Much Disney Death Fingore The Cameo "Well Done, Son!" Guy Put on a Bus The Alleged Car Manly Tears Fanservice Extra Military and Warfare Films Did Not Get the Girl Dressing as the Enemy Continuity Nod Kill 'em All Smoking Is Cool Plucky Comic Relief Immune to Bullets The Smurfette Principle Cassandra Truth Mundane Made Awesome Punch-Clock Villain Wicked Cultured Noodle Incident Black Best Friend Artistic License – Biology War Is Hell Adaptational Attractiveness Major Injury Underreaction Gilligan Cut Would Hurt a Child Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Hidden Depths Badass in a Nice Suit Informed Ability Adaptation Dye-Job The Hero Dies The Chick Meet Cute Boom, Headshot! 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Artistic License – Military Wounded Gazelle Gambit Product Placement Break the Haughty He Who Fights Monsters Curb-Stomp Battle Card-Carrying Villain The Cavalry Adults Are Useless Naked People Are Funny Ambiguously Gay Establishing Character Moment Coming-of-Age Story A Minor Kidroduction Big Applesauce Tap on the Head Ship Tease Biopic Only One Name Jerk with a Heart of Gold Double-Meaning Title Stalker with a Crush Honor Before Reason Adaptation Name Change NO INDOOR VOICE Parental Substitute Eldritch Abomination Author Avatar Reality Is Unrealistic Anachronism Stew Jitter Cam Heel–Face Turn Character Development Translation Convention Mr. Fanservice Logo Joke The Vamp Soft Glass Rich Bitch Fantastic Racism Daylight Horror Protagonist Title Bloody Hilarious British Films Armor-Piercing Question Crazy Jealous Guy Race Against the Clock I Need a Freaking Drink Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Paper-Thin Disguise Dirty Coward Fatal Family Photo Tempting Fate Determinator timeperiod Sealed Evil in a Can Death by Irony One-Word Title Guns Akimbo Hypocrite Easily Forgiven Superhero Obstructive Bureaucrat Science Fiction Films Straight Gay Took a Level in Badass Dirty Cop Bond One-Liner No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Big Guy Bilingual Bonus Historical Villain Upgrade Bound and Gagged Villain Ball Pay Evil unto Evil Brick Joke Cat Scare Bar Brawl She's Got Legs Sadistic Choice Kick the Son of a Bitch Mr. Exposition Cool Shades Sanity Slippage Unusual Euphemism Credits Gag I Just Shot Marvin in the Face A God Am I "Awesome McCool" Name Good Is Not Nice Earn Your Happy Ending Funny Background Event As the Good Book Says... 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Berserk Button Posthumous Character Artistic License – Physics Unwitting Instigator of Doom Femme Fatale Reality Has No Subtitles Dwindling Party Animated Credits Opening Final Girl No-Sell Asshole Victim Dying Moment of Awesome Unspoken Plan Guarantee "Shaggy Dog" Story Silent Movie Shell-Shocked Veteran Missing Mom Disappeared Dad Would Hit a Girl Creative Closing Credits Scenery Porn Mad Scientist Evil-Detecting Dog Love at First Sight Bring My Brown Pants Unusually Uninteresting Sight Imagine Spot Crazy-Prepared Too Dumb to Live Blood from the Mouth Evil Plan Even Evil Has Loved Ones Call-Forward Visual Pun Actually Pretty Funny Precision F-Strike Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Gratuitous English Line-of-Sight Name Man on Fire Narrator Horror Films Broken Aesop Wham Line Grey and Gray Morality Arch-Enemy Black Comedy Amusing Injuries Anachronic Order Famous Last Words Antagonist Title Nice Hat Anti-Villain Beware the Nice Ones Eagleland Thriller Dark Action Girl Bare Your Midriff Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Destination Defenestration Taking You with Me Scary Black Man Fat Bastard Genre Shift The Stoner Apocalypse How Loads and Loads of Characters Author Appeal Fiery Redhead Sequel Escalation An Arm and a Leg The Dreaded Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Evil vs. Evil Same Language Dub Dumb Blonde Leaning on the Fourth Wall No OSHA Compliance Black and Gray Morality In Name Only Fainting Demoted to Extra Martial Arts Movie Stuff Blowing Up Deal with the Devil Expy The '60s Real Life Writes the Plot Calling the Old Man Out Make It Look Like an Accident Jerkass Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Mafia Sole Survivor Eureka Moment Rule of Symbolism Beauty Is Never Tarnished Central Theme Totally Radical Our Zombies Are Different Serial Killer Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Running Gag Broken Pedestal Not Even Bothering with the Accent German Films Re-Cut Villain Protagonist Amoral Attorney Anti-Hero Made of Explodium The Voiceless Breaking the Fourth Wall Get Out! More Dakka Papa Wolf Psychopathic Manchild Super Strength Attempted Rape Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Italian Films The Dog Bites Back Kill It with Fire Meaningful Echo Be Careful What You Wish For Ghost Fiction Award-Bait Song A Date with Rosie Palms Defiant to the End Spanner in the Works A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bavarian Fire Drill Big "NO!" Moment Killer Small Name, Big Ego Conspicuous CG The Power of Love Fan Disservice Cool Old Guy Chewing the Scenery Every Car Is a Pinto Dramedy Made of Iron Star-Crossed Lovers Fatal Flaw Catapult Nightmare Damsel in Distress Cool Car Ambiguous Disorder Interrupted Suicide Heroic Sacrifice Together in Death Obfuscating Stupidity Improvised Weapon Properly Paranoid Left the Background Music On Bolivian Army Ending World of Ham Empathic Environment Becoming the Mask One Steve Limit Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Needs Wiki Magic Love Manchild Suspiciously Specific Denial Big Bad Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Not So Stoic Anguished Declaration of Love Sports Stories Shout-Out Camera Abuse Took a Level in Jerkass Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Documentary You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Hooker with a Heart of Gold Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Once More, with Clarity! Disproportionate Retribution Big-Bad Ensemble Rated M for Manly Hair-Trigger Temper Yandere The Hero The Sociopath Four-Temperament Ensemble Jerkass Has a Point Early Installment Weirdness La Résistance Really Gets Around Gainax Ending Fate Worse than Death Older Than They Look Adaptational Villainy Not So Different Parental Neglect Redshirt Army Jerk Jock Evil Is Petty Cat Fight Greater-Scope Villain For Want of a Nail Demonic Possession May–December Romance Framing Device Improbable Weapon User Death by Sex Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Oh, Crap! The '80s Agony of the Feet The '90s Sir Swears-a-Lot Never Trust a Trailer Mercy Kill Throwing Your Sword Always Works Very Loosely Based on a True Story Call-Back Laughing Mad Rule of Cool Neck Lift Shut Up, Hannibal! Offscreen Teleportation Evil Is Hammy Hero of Another Story Dogged Nice Guy Room Full of Crazy Mood Whiplash Aluminum Christmas Trees Hollywood Law The Musical Mama Bear Depraved Bisexual Truth in Television Woman in White Woman Scorned