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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Outrun the Fireball Scenery Gorn Only Known by Their Nickname Did Not Get the Girl Expy Anguished Declaration of Love Chekhov's Gunman Taking You with Me Deliberate Values Dissonance Black and Gray Morality Antagonist Title Word of God Sole Survivor Red Herring Heel–Face Turn Took a Level in Badass Spiritual Successor Neck Lift Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Chick Death Glare For the Evulz Dwindling Party Badass in a Nice Suit Anachronic Order All There in the Script Ominous Latin Chanting Combat Pragmatist Apocalypse How The Remake Broken Bird Humiliation Conga Married to the Job Break the Cutie Artistic License – History Those Two Bad Guys Getting Crap Past the Radar The Sociopath Title Drop "The Reason You Suck" Speech Evil Sounds Deep Faux Affably Evil Sequel Escalation Spanner in the Works Setting Update Knife Nut The Mafia Cool Car Men Are the Expendable Gender Author Avatar Deadpan Snarker Parental Neglect The Faceless Face–Heel Turn Obviously Evil Irony Major Injury Underreaction Sacrificial Lion Shipper on Deck Heroes Want Redheads Red Shirt She's Got Legs Ax-Crazy Reality Is Unrealistic Soft Glass Fiery Redhead As the Good Book Says... Zombie Stories Gold Digger Dogged Nice Guy Cloudcuckoolander Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Cluster F-Bomb Karma Houdini Offscreen Moment of Awesome Death of a Child La Résistance As Himself Cool Old Lady Redemption Equals Death Anachronism Stew Sealed Evil in a Can Disney Death Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Deconstruction Vomit Indiscretion Shot Action Genre Cold-Blooded Torture Vacation Films Attempted Rape Parental Abandonment Jerk Jock Butt-Monkey Leitmotif Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bi the Way Diabolus ex Machina Get Out! 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Famous Last Words Fainting Guns Akimbo Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Armor-Piercing Question Totally Radical Final Girl Adaptation Dye-Job You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Actor Allusion Plot Hole A Minor Kidroduction Naked People Are Funny Big Fancy House Foregone Conclusion Authority Equals Asskicking Continuity Nod Fantasy Films Hero of Another Story Mistaken for Gay Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Historical Hero Upgrade Match Cut Manchild 20 Minutes into the Future Guile Hero Race Against the Clock Animated Credits Opening Mr. Fanservice The Ace Good Is Not Nice Death by Sex Unreliable Narrator Bloody Hilarious Reality Has No Subtitles Yandere Exact Words Improbable Aiming Skills Soundtrack Dissonance Punch-Clock Villain Informed Ability Implacable Man Scary Black Man Reality Ensues Chekhov's Gun Bar Brawl folderlabel Accidental Murder Flipping the Bird Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Ditz Captain Ersatz Badass Normal Fingore All for Nothing Hope Spot Fourth Date Marriage Hollywood Darkness The Power of Love Fire-Forged Friends Posthumous Character Love at First Sight Obfuscating Stupidity Beware the Nice Ones Stuff Blowing Up Mood Whiplash Take That! 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Auto Erotica No Name Given Pyrrhic Victory Improvised Weapon Film Noir Calling the Old Man Out Improbable Weapon User Meaningful Echo Drugs Are Bad Hate Sink Important Haircut Suddenly SHOUTING! Unusual Euphemism Take a Third Option Gratuitous English Knight Templar Canadian Movies Catapult Nightmare Red Eyes, Take Warning Double-Meaning Title Playing Gertrude Genre Shift Catch-Phrase Ambiguous Ending Brother–Sister Incest Not Quite Dead Faking the Dead Roaring Rampage of Revenge Really Gets Around Camera Abuse Casting Gag Plucky Comic Relief Affably Evil Flashback Artistic License – Law Happily Married Shower Scene Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality All Just a Dream Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Video Credits Honor Before Reason Light Is Not Good Spell My Name with an "S" Noodle Incident Children Are Innocent The Reveal The '80s Danny Peary Cult Movies List Conspicuous CG Henpecked Husband Gilligan Cut Sadistic Choice Evil Is Petty Tranquil Fury Logo Joke Frame-Up The Cameo Kids Are Cruel Based on a True Story Fantastic Racism Lighter and Softer Mr. Exposition Overprotective Dad Karmic Death Taking the Bullet Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Film Series Blood Knight Undying Loyalty War Is Hell Straight Gay After the End Corrupt Corporate Executive No Ending Wretched Hive Greater-Scope Villain Dies Wide Open Creator Cameo Smug Snake Mundane Made Awesome Kubrick Stare Together in Death Bait-and-Switch Stealth Hi/Bye Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Be Careful What You Wish For Anyone Can Die Artistic License – Gun Safety Non-Indicative Name "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Stoic The X of Y Demoted to Extra Stealth Pun Evil vs. Evil Alpha Bitch Woman Scorned For Want of a Nail No Celebrities Were Harmed Only One Name Say My Name Dumb Blonde Historical In-Joke Evil-Detecting Dog Unresolved Sexual Tension Wounded Gazelle Gambit The '90s The Alcoholic Paper-Thin Disguise The Dragon Eyepatch of Power You Killed My Father Curse Cut Short Aluminum Christmas Trees Disguised in Drag Monumental Damage Skewed Priorities Those Wacky Nazis Animal Motifs Green-Eyed Monster Offscreen Teleportation Wicked Cultured Left the Background Music On Damsel in Distress Parental Substitute Time Skip It Can Think Dutch Angle Super Strength Evil Is Hammy Age Lift No Antagonist What Happened to the Mouse? Not What It Looks Like A Father to His Men She Cleans Up Nicely Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Reckless Gun Usage Friend to All Children Does This Remind You of Anything? Police Brutality He Who Fights Monsters Slasher Movie Defiant to the End Beard of Evil Cool Shades Daddy's Girl The Quiet One Serious Business Adaptational Badass Recycled IN SPACE! Department of Redundancy Department Extremely Short Timespan Ms. Fanservice Loads and Loads of Characters I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The '50s Evil Brit Call-Forward Composite Character Victoria's Secret Compartment Fake Shemp Have a Gay Old Time Anti-Villain Beta Couple Disproportionate Retribution Character Development Not So Above It All Male Gaze Jerk with a Heart of Gold Breaking the Fourth Wall Determinator aka: The Determinator Token Minority Femme Fatale Becoming the Mask Visual Pun Adaptational Villainy NO INDOOR VOICE Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Broken Pedestal Amoral Attorney Ungrateful Bastard Ambiguously Gay Dark Reprise Too Dumb to Live Belligerent Sexual Tension BFG Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Four-Temperament Ensemble The Un-Reveal Off-into-the-Distance Ending Your Cheating Heart Humans Are Bastards Deal with the Devil Captain Obvious Asshole Victim Ghost Fiction Retirony Poor Communication Kills Leaning on the Fourth Wall Oh, Crap! Big Bad Duumvirate Narrator Air-Vent Passageway Brick Joke Mooks Red Oni, Blue Oni Arc Words Fun with Acronyms Madness Mantra Hoist by His Own Petard Berserk Button It Will Never Catch On Foreshadowing The Smart Guy I'm a Humanitarian Bound and Gagged The Vamp Ship Tease The Musical Handicapped Badass Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Brainless Beauty Ascended Extra Epic Movie Leave the Camera Running Foil British Films It's Personal Spared by the Adaptation Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Deus ex Machina Works Set in World War II Hooker with a Heart of Gold What the Hell, Hero? Bittersweet Ending The Chessmaster Slasher Smile Framing Device Meaningful Name Killed Mid-Sentence Anti-Hero Only Sane Man Villainous Breakdown Shown Their Work The Mole Credits Gag Insistent Terminology Half the Man He Used to Be Heroic Sacrifice Protagonist Title Adults Are Useless Action Prologue Woman in White Peek-a-Boo Corpse Lampshade Hanging In Medias Res Male Frontal Nudity Self-Deprecation Mugging the Monster Cool Guns Ripped from the Headlines Film Noir Index Vitriolic Best Buds Villain Protagonist Slashed Throat Dirty Cop Running Gag Never My Fault Star-Crossed Lovers Red Right Hand Annoying Younger Sibling Worthy Opponent Awesome, but Impractical Malevolent Masked Men Smoking Is Cool A Date with Rosie Palms Ass Shove Adaptation Distillation A.I. Is a Crapshoot Dual Wielding Made of Explodium