Tropescilloscope: Papa Wolf

Mess with his kids, and he will end you. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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