Tropescilloscope: Friend to All Children

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

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