Tropescilloscope: Papa Wolf

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

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