Tropescilloscope: Overprotective Dad

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

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Not So Different Failed a Spot Check Russian Films There Is No Kill Like Overkill Naïve Newcomer Evil Brit Vitriolic Best Buds Fatal Family Photo Yandere Greater-Scope Villain Scenery Gorn The Power of Love Artistic License – Biology Eiffel Tower Effect Mexican Standoff Aside Glance Deliberate Values Dissonance Public Domain Feature Films It Will Never Catch On Homage Leitmotif Informed Ability Time Skip Wicked Cultured How We Got Here Put on a Bus Adaptation Name Change Chase Scene Off with His Head! Meet Cute Redemption Equals Death Action Prologue Sole Survivor Chekhov's Gunman Adults Are Useless Improbable Weapon User Fate Worse than Death Pragmatic Villainy Married to the Job Retcon Film Series Non-Indicative Name Eureka Moment Obviously Evil Knight Templar Fanservice Extra The Oner Your Head A-Splode Country Matters The Chessmaster Card-Carrying Villain The Film of the Book Beware the Nice Ones Artistic License – Military The X of Y Fantasy Films Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Musical Cowboy Cop Leaning on the Fourth Wall Heroes Want Redheads Slap-Slap-Kiss Logo Joke In Medias Res Unresolved Sexual Tension The Brute Interrupted Suicide Brutal Honesty Up to Eleven Hypocritical Humor Trailers Always Spoil Genre Savvy Pragmatic Adaptation Funny Background Event Black Comedy Rape Mooks Imagine Spot And I Must Scream All Just a Dream The Place Fan Disservice Gone Horribly Right Music Stories Anguished Declaration of Love Historical Hero Upgrade Dirty Coward I Need a Freaking Drink Fingore Real Life Writes the Plot German Films Big Eater Agony of the Feet Artistic License – Physics Grey and Gray Morality Hero Antagonist Casting Gag The Big Guy Affably Evil The Smurfette Principle Sanity Slippage Fourth Date Marriage Gory Discretion Shot Once More, with Clarity! 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Truth in Television Made of Iron Mood Whiplash Kids Are Cruel Hidden Depths Earn Your Happy Ending Beard of Evil Romantic Comedy Laser-Guided Karma Freeze-Frame Bonus Sinister Minister He Knows Too Much Dissonant Serenity Intrepid Reporter Heel–Face Turn Stuff Blowing Up Genre Throwback From Nobody to Nightmare Artistic License – Law folderlabel Plot Hole Spanner in the Works Chekhov's Skill Unwitting Instigator of Doom Adaptation Expansion Exactly What It Says on the Tin As Long as It Sounds Foreign Video Credits Curb-Stomp Battle Left the Background Music On Wretched Hive Random Events Plot Facial Horror Posthumous Character Determinator aka: The Determinator Be Careful What You Wish For Wham Line The Voiceless Big Applesauce Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Drill Sergeant Nasty Tranquil Fury Dark Is Not Evil Break the Haughty Good Is Not Nice And Starring One-Man Army Intergenerational Friendship Bring My Brown Pants Love Triangle Sadistic Choice Eyepatch of Power Fiery Redhead Five-Man Band Overprotective Dad Offscreen Teleportation Did Not Get the Girl Not Using the "Z" Word The Starscream Military and Warfare Films Big-Bad Ensemble The Load The Ace Armor-Piercing Question Monumental Damage Berserk Button Badass Boast Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun She's Got Legs Kill 'em All All There in the Manual Whole Plot Reference Shut Up, Hannibal! 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The Mafia Cool Guns Only in It for the Money May–December Romance Dirty Cop Accidental Murder Totally Radical No Name Given Worthy Opponent Show Within a Show Brick Joke Psychopathic Manchild Meaningful Echo Fake Shemp My Beloved Smother The Cavalry Last-Name Basis Celebrity Paradox Cain and Abel Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Would Hit a Girl Together in Death Dogged Nice Guy Riddle for the Ages Establishing Character Moment Sexy Discretion Shot The Casanova Combat Pragmatist Beta Couple It's All About Me Rule of Three Missing Mom Call-Forward Very Loosely Based on a True Story Australian Movies Scary Black Man Dark and Troubled Past Contrived Coincidence Not So Stoic Needs Wiki Magic Love Market-Based Title Retired Badass A Date with Rosie Palms Catch-Phrase Dramatic Irony Nice Guy Rule of Cool Brainless Beauty The '70s Twist Ending For the Evulz Action Girl I'm a Humanitarian The Faceless Plucky Comic Relief An Aesop Manic Pixie Dream Girl Insistent Terminology Mad Scientist Disproportionate Retribution Shirtless Scene Break the Cutie Unusually Uninteresting Sight Paper-Thin Disguise Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Our Vampires Are Different Crapsack World Only Known by Their Nickname Dumb Blonde Serious Business Red Herring Faux Affably Evil Evil Is Hammy Stepford Smiler Dark Action Girl Fun with Acronyms Death by Irony Annoying Younger Sibling Drives Like Crazy Knife Nut Blood Knight Reality Ensues Anyone Can Die All Men Are Perverts Broken Aesop Took a Level in Jerkass Badass Normal Heroic Sacrifice Adult Fear Word of God It's Personal Mr. Exposition Badass Grandpa Every Car Is a Pinto Blackmail Character Development Irony Sequel Hook No OSHA Compliance Karmic Death The Smart Guy Getting Crap Past the Radar Blood from the Mouth Early-Bird Cameo Abusive Parents Gorn Artistic License – Geography The Chick Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Apocalypse How Call-Back Bland-Name Product Tagline Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Death Glare Men Are the Expendable Gender Epic Movie "Awesome McCool" Name Bittersweet Ending Science Fiction Films Green-Eyed Monster What the Hell, Hero? 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Is a Crapshoot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Heroic BSoD Re-Cut Demoted to Extra No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Our Zombies Are Different Suspiciously Similar Substitute Those Two Guys Pretty Little Headshots Rated M for Manly Running Gag Auto Erotica Canadian Movies Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Morality Pet Henpecked Husband Cloudcuckoolander Made of Explodium Developing Doomed Characters Central Theme Maybe Ever After Catapult Nightmare Heterosexual Life-Partners Large Ham Undying Loyalty The '80s The Sociopath Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Rewatch Bonus Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Gilligan Cut Ripped from the Headlines Breaking the Fourth Wall Early Installment Weirdness The '60s Everyone Has Standards Badass Bookworm The Lost Lenore From Bad to Worse Big Bad Killed Mid-Sentence The Hero Dies A Minor Kidroduction Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bald of Evil Bloody Hilarious Empathic Environment Dual Wielding Amusing Injuries Laughing Mad Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Lancer The Quiet One Disguised in Drag Neck Snap Antagonist Title Deal with the Devil Hong Kong Films Expy Politically Incorrect Villain Animal Motifs Take That! Historical Villain Upgrade Outrun the Fireball Disappeared Dad Gratuitous English Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Mind Screw Beauty Is Never Tarnished Older Than They Look Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Horror Films Say My Name The Alcoholic Off-into-the-Distance Ending Manly Tears Hollywood Law Revenge Bad Boss Same Language Dub Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Broken Pedestal Meaningful Background Event Film Noir Dwindling Party Hollywood Darkness Precision F-Strike Corpsing Let's Get Dangerous! Eye Scream My God, What Have I Done? Cruel and Unusual Death Double Entendre Anti-Villain Nice Hat Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Roger Ebert: Great Movies List B-Movie Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Parental Substitute Love at First Sight Shower Scene Poor Communication Kills No-Sell You Killed My Father Oh, Crap! Boom, Headshot! 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Insult Backfire "Shaggy Dog" Story Hero of Another Story Police Brutality Parental Neglect Title Drop Coming-of-Age Story Serial Killer Instant Death Bullet Scare Chord Male Gaze Covers Always Lie Leave the Camera Running Playing Gertrude Taking the Bullet Well-Intentioned Extremist Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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