Tropescilloscope: Friend to All Children

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