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Action-Hero Babysitter
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A typecast actor known for their macho action roles is cast in a movie where they play a tough guy Action Hero or macho guy type put in a position of responsibility for children. Sometimes this takes the form of a Badass and Child Duo. This usually results in a Fish out of Water situation that is Played for Laughs as the macho manly man struggles to deal with new and unfamiliar problems that most family men would consider par for the course, such as dealing with a Potty Emergency, trying to cook meals, balancing work and family, and putting up with a Mouthy Kid. The macho man is forced to learn new skills, though he often finds creative ways to apply his action hero skills to a more domestic situation. Usually the children are bad or mischievous, and usually the "Action Hero" begins the movie "hating children" and gradually grows to love them over the course of the film. To qualify as this trope, the casting is as important as the plot. A primary factor in this trope is to see the actor in an unusual (for them) and often humorous situation. The specific details of the character are often less important than just the fact that they are a badass or Action Hero, because that is what the actor invariably plays. This is similar to Playing Against Type, but instead of having the actor play someone unlike what they normally play, they play their regular character type but in an unusual situation. However, while the bulk of the movie will focus on domestic hijinks, there will often be at least a few action scenes, especially at the conclusion of the movie. Sometimes pops up in Child Care and Babysitting Stories. See also A Day in Her Apron. |
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T-800 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day, also played by Arnold, has to protect the pre-teen John Connor. Also the T-800 from Terminator Genisys, which was sent back to 1973 to protect young Sarah Connor and was nicknamed "Pops". |
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The premise behind Beelzebub. So far there are four of them. | |
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The Game Plan The Rock as a football player unexpectedly having to raise a ballerina daughter. Dwayne Johnson's The Tooth Fairy also has an element of this. |
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The Cowboys with John Wayne has elements of this as his character is forced to learn how to deal with children he must use on a cattle drive (but also somewhat subverts this trope when John Wayne's character is killed and the kids learn to kill in order to avenge his death and recover the stolen cattle). | |
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Mr. Nanny, with Hulk Hogan as a former pro wrestler taking a job as a nanny/bodyguard to a couple of bratty kids. | |
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As The Nostalgia Critic points out, this trend started with Arnold Schwarzenegger going undercover in a kindergarten in Kindergarten Cop. | |
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In Shōnen Onmyōji, Gurren, the most feared of Abe no Seimeis 12 familiars, is shown to have taken care of Masahiro when he was a child. | |
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Also the T-800 from Terminator Genisys, which was sent back to 1973 to protect young Sarah Connor and was nicknamed "Pops". | |
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One Piece: In one filler episode Zoro is forced to take care of some babies after being forcibly adopted into a family that takes in kids with no home. | |
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Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War: In the first part, Finn was introduced as the disciple of Duke Quan. In the second part and in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, he is the caretaker of Quan's son Leif and Lady Lachesis's daughter Nanna who, depending on the player's actions, can actually be Finn's biological daughter. Oifey and Shanan, who were respectively the Non-Action Guy and Tagalong Kid in the first part of Geneaology, have also become this by the time the second part begins. | |
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How to Hero mentions babysitters who are secretly superheroes. The Guide advises them to stay with the children they're supposed to be watching and fighting crime some other time. | |
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The Rotten Tomatoes Show has a song called "Action Hero Babysitter". | |
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The Babysitters Club: One of the baby sitters charges has been established from his first appearance as someone who hates all girls, including his own mother and sisters. But when the sitters decide to baby sit a bunch of kids together, they are stunned when the boy is very gentle and playful with the babies. | |
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Twin Sitters is a two-for-one deal. The twin Paul brothers (aka Barbarian Brothers) act as babysitters for some bratty kids. Hilarity ensues. | |
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Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: Commander Badass is an in-universe example, being a former Super Soldier and (mostly) Amicably Divorced father of two young children. He's probably better at looking after them (and being a Parental Substitute to Jared the intern) than he was at being an action hero, but it's implied by some flashback panels that this was a long learning process. | |
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Pictured above: In The Pacifier, Vin Diesel plays a Navy SEAL tasked with babysitting the children of a dead scientist. Including two babies. | |
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Saiyuki: What Sanzo thinks he's become in the Burial arc before he visits the three aspects and realizes Goku isn't just some little kid who was stuck in a cave. | |
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John Cena in Playing with Fire (2019). He's the rugged and manly firefighter, they're the three kids that have to stay in the fire station until their parents are found. | |
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In an episode of Frasier, the macho Bulldog Briscoe proves himself to be a remarkably good, sensitive, babysitter to Alice Doyle. It isn't completely a cynical ploy to win her mother over: he really does seem to bond with Alice and take pleasure in doing so. | |
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