Tropescilloscope: Papa Wolf

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

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