Tropescilloscope: Adults Are Useless

Older characters aren't much help for the younger characters in this show. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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