Tropescilloscope: Henpecked Husband

The woman in the relationship calls the shots. The man is merely her pet. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is Serious Business No-Holds-Barred Beatdown My Greatest Failure Dramatic Gun Cock Ambiguous Disorder Breaking the Fourth Wall Air-Vent Passageway One-Man Army Central Theme Well-Intentioned Extremist Extreme Doormat Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique More Dakka Expy Break the Cutie Death Glare Retired Badass Older Than They Look Irony Reckless Gun Usage Idiot Ball The Hero The Atoner Mystery and Detective Films Zombie Stories Adaptation Expansion Historical Villain Upgrade No Antagonist Does This Remind You of Anything? Flipping the Bird Married to the Job Call-Forward Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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All Men Are Perverts Antagonist Title "Shaggy Dog" Story N-Word Privileges Protagonist Title Bloodier and Gorier Book-Ends Curb-Stomp Battle The Place Arranged Marriage Broken Aesop Driven to Suicide Vitriolic Best Buds Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Film Noir Only in It for the Money Scary Black Man Ms. Fanservice Product Placement Shell-Shocked Veteran Mama Bear Celebrity Paradox Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Not Quite Dead timeperiod Redemption Equals Death One-Word Title Only Sane Man Wicked Cultured Developing Doomed Characters Daddy's Girl The Film of the Book Corpsing Failed a Spot Check Psychological Thriller Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dark Reprise Race Lift The Mafia The Smurfette Principle Not Using the "Z" Word What the Hell, Hero? Wham Line Eagleland Roger Ebert: Great Movies List I Did What I Had to Do Let's Get Dangerous! 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