Tropescilloscope: Henpecked Husband

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

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