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