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