Line #18 PlayingWith/TurnOutLikeHisFather


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character raises a child to not act like another character.
2	* '''Straight''': After Charlie dies in battle, before his son, Bob, is born, Alice raises Bob far away from military installations and does not tell him anything about his father's military career.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice raises Bob in the forest, so ''no one'' could tell him anything about the military.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Alice tells Bob about the military, some local installations, and some relatives who were in the military (obviously not including Charlie), but that's it.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Alice is terrified that Bob will die, too.
7	** EvilParentsWantGoodKids.
8	* '''Inverted''': Alice eagerly tries to mold Bob into acting just like Charlie.
9	* '''Subverted''':
10	** It looks like Alice is trying to raise Bob to be different, but then it turns out that she is subtly trying to mold him into Charlie.
11	** Alice made up Charlie's military career to have an excuse to control her son.
12	* '''Double Subverted''':
13	** Except then she's not.
14	** But she still raises him to be more cautious than his father.
15	* '''Parodied''': Charlie was an ice cream salesman, and Alice lives in morbid fear that Bob will be -- gasp! -- an ice cream man as well.
16	* '''Zig Zagged''': Whenver Bob does something, Alice immediately compares it to what Charlie would do. Then she decides whether to encourage or discourage it based on how well it worked for Charlie.
17	* '''Averted''': Alice is okay with him being whatever he wants to when he grows up.
18	%% Enforced means the trope is included for reasons OTHER THAN the author just wanting to include it.
19	* '''Enforced''': ???
20	* '''Lampshaded''': "My mom was always scared I'd turn out like my dad. I guess it makes sense. I mean, he died."
21	* '''Invoked''': "Do you think maybe your mom is terrified you'll turn out like your dad?"
22	* '''Exploited''': The Big Bad makes sure Alice raises Bob so that he doesn't grow up to be a hero.
23	* '''Defied''': "Nah. Bob can make his own choices."
24	* '''Discussed''': "The chances are that Alice will raise Bob to be different from his father."
25	* '''Conversed''': "TheHero will never turn out evil like his father. His mother always brings him up to be different."
26	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's pathological need to [[MyBelovedSmother control Bob]] is part guilt over how she treated Charlie, part making her son wholly her own, and results Bob revolting and fleeing her. To join the army.
27	* '''Reconstructed''':
28	** She has, however, installed in him some sense, so that while he turns a soldier, he is less headstrong and survives.
29	** Alice does not control Bob but instead just encourages any safe interest he has. Bob does not feel especially controlled and she succeeds.
30	* '''Implied''': Bob asks about his father, and Alice suddenly gets very serious and refuses to tell him. The camera pauses meaningfully on what might be a posthumous medal of honor.
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37	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
38	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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