Tropescilloscope: Overprotective Dad

"No boy is good enough for my daughter, capiche?" (read more at tvtropes.org)

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