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