Tropescilloscope: Friend to All Children

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

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