Tropescilloscope: Parental Substitute

An older character acts as a parental figure for another. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Ironic Echo Leaning on the Fourth Wall From Bad to Worse Scare Chord I'm a Humanitarian Imagine Spot Spanner in the Works Five-Man Band Dramatic Irony Death by Irony Sadistic Choice Early-Bird Cameo The '80s Meaningful Echo Amoral Attorney The Place Would Hit a Girl Death Glare Deliberately Monochrome Extreme Doormat Protagonist Title Blatant Lies Sci-Fi Horror Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Badass Longcoat Double-Meaning Title Catch-Phrase Public Domain Feature Films One-Word Title Foil The Faceless Despair Event Horizon The Power of Love Twist Ending Abusive Parents Adaptational Villainy You Killed My Father Flashback Call-Back Dissonant Serenity Anachronic Order Retirony Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Exact Words Politically Incorrect Villain Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Daddy's Girl Brick Joke Eldritch Abomination Soundtrack Dissonance Reality Ensues Anyone Can Die Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor It's All About Me Wrong Genre Savvy Anachronism Stew Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Sinister Minister Your Head A-Splode Guile Hero No Name Given Genre Savvy "The Reason You Suck" Speech Fantasy Films Loophole Abuse Wham Line The Lancer Implacable Man Funny Foreigner Closed Circle Creepy Child Unreliable Narrator Tap on the Head Historical-Domain Character Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Epilogue Pretty Little Headshots Betty and Veronica Unresolved Sexual Tension Big Bad Interrupted Suicide Unwitting Instigator of Doom Reality Is Unrealistic Auto Erotica Big Fancy House An Axe to Grind Thriller Cool Guns Fun with Acronyms Hoist by His Own Petard Horror Films Punch-Clock Villain Video Credits Small Name, Big Ego Adult Fear Establishing Character Moment Male Gaze Blood Knight Artistic License – Biology Dying Moment of Awesome For the Evulz Room Full of Crazy Works Set in World War II Wretched Hive Shower Scene Naked People Are Funny Trailers Always Spoil No Antagonist As Long as It Sounds Foreign Faking the Dead Groin Attack Artistic License – Geography Parental Neglect Posthumous Character Creator Cameo Blood from the Mouth Meet Cute Biopic Shirtless Scene Cassandra Truth What the Hell, Hero? 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Line-of-Sight Name Conspicuous CG Every Car Is a Pinto All Girls Want Bad Boys Credits Gag The Great Depression All Just a Dream Vacation Films Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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