Tropescilloscope: Papa Wolf

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

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