Tropescilloscope: Parental Substitute

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

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Eldritch Abomination Black Comedy Rape Guns Akimbo Redshirt Army Dark Reprise The Dragon I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Totally Radical Fanservice Extra Calling the Old Man Out Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Mad Scientist Insane Troll Logic Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass He Knows Too Much Refuge in Audacity Captain Ersatz Left the Background Music On Needs Wiki Magic Love Did Not Get the Girl Sealed Evil in a Can Tagline From Bad to Worse Yandere Berserk Button Pretty Little Headshots Sacrificial Lion Epic Movie Disney Villain Death Missing Mom The Alcoholic Slasher Movie Scenery Gorn Deus ex Machina Half the Man He Used to Be Mistaken for Gay One-Word Title Evil Is Hammy Villain with Good Publicity Sci-Fi Horror Bunny-Ears Lawyer Only One Name The Reveal Defiant to the End Humans Are Bastards Improbable Aiming Skills Married to the Job Death Seeker Male Gaze Damsel in Distress Imagine Spot Demonic Possession You Killed My Father Our Zombies Are Different Expy Black Dude Dies First Our Vampires Are Different Those Two Guys The Mole Fantasy Films Mercy Kill Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Chick Madness Mantra Eagleland Sadistic Choice Real Life Writes the Plot Implacable Man An Arm and a Leg Heel–Face Turn Deal with the Devil Film Noir Index Kill It with Fire Dissonant Serenity Rated M for Manly Action Girl Anachronism Stew Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Genre Savvy Creative Closing Credits Adaptation Distillation Important Haircut Immune to Bullets Knife Nut Ship Tease The Hero Properly Paranoid Blood from the Mouth Bloodless Carnage Exactly What It Says on the Tin Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Double-Meaning Title Zombie Stories Stylistic Suck Dark Action Girl Match Cut Spell My Name with an "S" Chekhov's Gun Get Out! Token Minority You Have Failed Me Sinister Minister Epic Fail Broken Aesop Dull Surprise Comically Missing the Point Broken Bird Dirty Coward Not Using the "Z" Word Bond One-Liner Lighter and Softer Cloudcuckoolander Villain Song Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Taking You with Me No OSHA Compliance What the Hell, Hero? Early-Bird Cameo The Dreaded Wounded Gazelle Gambit As You Know As the Good Book Says... Toplessness from the Back Paper-Thin Disguise O.O.C. Is Serious Business Disney Death Very Loosely Based on a True Story Advertised Extra Famous Last Words Only Known by Their Nickname Adorkable The Atoner The Smart Guy Book-Ends Rule of Funny Neck Snap Insistent Terminology timeperiod Villainous Breakdown Nice Hat Unusually Uninteresting Sight Credits Gag How We Got Here Malevolent Masked Men Spiteful Spit Historical In-Joke Storming the Castle Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dwindling Party Artistic License – Gun Safety Pimped-Out Dress Jitter Cam The Ghost Green-Eyed Monster Not So Above It All The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Fanservice Unspoken Plan Guarantee Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Musical Spanner in the Works The Cameo Let's Get Dangerous! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Irony Never Found the Body Once More, with Clarity! 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Pretty in Mink Ambiguously Gay Never My Fault Cruel and Unusual Death Psychological Thriller Author Avatar Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Grey and Gray Morality Bad "Bad Acting" I Did What I Had to Do Unresolved Sexual Tension Off-into-the-Distance Ending Have a Gay Old Time Facial Horror Bond Villain Stupidity Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Retired Badass Canadian Movies Stealth Pun Naïve Newcomer Arranged Marriage The Sociopath Bald of Evil Flashback French Films Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Drill Sergeant Nasty Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Here We Go Again! Works Set in World War II Composite Character Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Bury Your Gays Depraved Bisexual Funny Foreigner Cool Old Guy Soundtrack Dissonance Idiot Ball folderlabel Interrupted Suicide Well-Intentioned Extremist Due to the Dead Martial Arts Movie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Shirtless Scene Revenge Make It Look Like an Accident Ambiguous Ending Camp Gay Mama Bear Curse Cut Short Meaningful Echo And the Adventure Continues The '50s Authority Equals Asskicking Accidental Misnaming Video Credits Fatal Family Photo Extremely Short Timespan Meaningful Name Hypocrite Would Hit a Girl Eiffel Tower Effect Destination Defenestration Drugs Are Bad Too Dumb to Live Combat Pragmatist For Want of a Nail Bolivian Army Ending Ironic Echo Brick Joke Cold-Blooded Torture Cluster F-Bomb Badass Normal Tranquil Fury Central Theme The Mafia Badass Longcoat Say My Name Henpecked Husband Faking the Dead What Happened to the Mouse? 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