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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Adaptation Distillation Animal Title Index Reckless Gun Usage Drugs Are Bad Eye Scream Yandere Cool Shades Apocalypse How Fire-Forged Friends Ship Tease Bond Villain Stupidity The Faceless The Un-Reveal Russian Films Face Death with Dignity Faux Affably Evil Rule of Funny Captain Obvious Slasher Smile Idiot Ball The Cavalry Villain with Good Publicity Animated Credits Opening The Lost Lenore One-Man Army Gold Digger Rewatch Bonus Naïve Newcomer Author Avatar Breaking the Fourth Wall Silence Is Golden Reality Is Unrealistic Only Known by Their Nickname War Is Hell The Voiceless Stepford Smiler Black Best Friend Dying Moment of Awesome Leave the Camera Running Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Bond One-Liner The Reveal timeperiod Freudian Excuse Took a Level in Badass Dissonant Serenity Butt-Monkey Armor-Piercing Question May–December Romance Bound and Gagged Deadpan Snarker Overprotective Dad Martial Arts Movie Improbable Weapon User Historical In-Joke Artistic License – History Distracted by the Sexy Daylight Horror "Shaggy Dog" Story The Dragon Does Not Like Shoes Sports Stories Properly Paranoid Cat Fight Together in Death The Starscream Skewed Priorities Early Installment Weirdness Big "NO!" Politically Incorrect Villain In Name Only Kill It with Fire A.I. Is a Crapshoot Mundane Made Awesome Black Comedy Heroic Sacrifice Noodle Incident Spell My Name with an "S" Friend to All Children As Himself One Steve Limit Mistaken for Gay Daddy's Girl Enemy Mine Dutch Angle The Dreaded O.O.C. Is Serious Business Anachronism Stew Last-Name Basis Badass Grandpa B-Movie Eureka Moment The Quiet One Boom, Headshot! 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From Nobody to Nightmare Frame-Up Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Those Wacky Nazis The Smart Guy Adults Are Useless Dirty Coward Blackmail Woman in White Sole Survivor Anyone Can Die Adorkable Malevolent Masked Men Extremely Short Timespan Meaningful Background Event Shell-Shocked Veteran Rape as Drama Funny Foreigner Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Wrong Genre Savvy Television Movie Index Taking You with Me Expy Kids Are Cruel Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Video Credits Annoying Younger Sibling He Knows Too Much Poor Communication Kills Not Using the "Z" Word Your Cheating Heart My Beloved Smother Left the Background Music On And Starring Maybe Ever After From Bad to Worse Auto Erotica Gainax Ending Not So Different Re-Cut Ambiguous Disorder Lampshade Hanging Recycled IN SPACE! 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Soft Glass Death Seeker Adaptational Villainy Motor Mouth Pyrrhic Victory Adapted Out Neck Snap Scenery Gorn Black and Gray Morality Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Country Matters Badass in a Nice Suit Rule of Cool Dogged Nice Guy Groin Attack Bowdlerise Artistic License – Gun Safety Playing Gertrude Humans Are Bastards Eldritch Abomination Determinator aka: The Determinator Bavarian Fire Drill Spared by the Adaptation Corpsing Adaptation Dye-Job Meaningful Echo Faking the Dead Abusive Parents Chekhov's Skill Spiritual Successor Star-Crossed Lovers Christmas Movies Index Blood from the Mouth Hollywood Law Bloodless Carnage Reality Has No Subtitles Heel–Face Turn Hoist by His Own Petard Big Bad Duumvirate "The Reason You Suck" Speech Loads and Loads of Characters Visual Pun Antagonist Title Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Death Glare Shower Scene Only in It for the Money Brother–Sister Incest Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Smug Snake Foregone Conclusion The X of Y Rule of Three Roaring Rampage of Revenge Made of Explodium Mood Whiplash Our Zombies Are Different Rated M for Manly Nice Hat For the Evulz Evil Laugh Names to Run Away from Really Fast Villain Opening Scene Age Lift All There in the Script Fainting Dirty Cop Villain Song Famous Last Words Ugly Guy, Hot Wife It Can Think Obviously Evil Wretched Hive Disney Villain Death Overly Long Gag Zombie Stories Bury Your Gays Wham Line Really Gets Around Word of God Evil Is Hammy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Not So Above It All Older Than They Look Ripped from the Headlines La Résistance Bilingual Bonus Credits Gag Spanner in the Works Narrator Horror Comedy Flipping the Bird Film Series Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Riddle for the Ages Disappeared Dad Pimped-Out Dress Beware the Nice Ones The Big Guy No Antagonist Parental Abandonment Rule of Symbolism Even Evil Has Loved Ones Retired Badass Everyone Has Standards No Celebrities Were Harmed Camera Abuse Leitmotif Alpha Bitch Amusing Injuries Big-Bad Ensemble Double-Meaning Title Gorn Same Language Dub Advertised Extra Have a Gay Old Time The Hero Dies Dies Wide Open Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dull Surprise Hell Is That Noise Corrupt Corporate Executive Hypocrite Pragmatic Adaptation Final Girl There Is No Kill Like Overkill Serial Killer Australian Movies Back from the Dead Mercy Kill Needs Wiki Magic Love Knife Nut Race Against the Clock Offscreen Teleportation Red Herring Victoria's Secret Compartment Put on a Bus Closed Circle Guns Akimbo