Tropescilloscope: Friend to All Children

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

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