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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Anguished Declaration of Love Alpha Bitch Bowdlerise Death by Sex The Ghost My Beloved Smother Hero of Another Story Eldritch Abomination "Awesome McCool" Name The Faceless Villain with Good Publicity Beard of Evil Half the Man He Used to Be Casting Gag Motor Mouth Fanservice Extra Big Applesauce Dogged Nice Guy Important Haircut Pretty in Mink Not Quite Dead As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mugging the Monster Action Genre Black Comedy Sole Survivor Dumb Blonde Even Evil Has Standards Unusually Uninteresting Sight Manipulative Bastard Accidental Murder Papa Wolf Put on a Bus Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Dreaded Humans Are Bastards The Lancer Pimped-Out Dress All Men Are Perverts Poor Communication Kills Black Dude Dies First Pretty Little Headshots Continuity Nod Vomit Discretion Shot Guile Hero Chewing the Scenery Killed Mid-Sentence Hollywood Darkness Adaptation Name Change The Lost Lenore '80s Hair Insult Backfire Informed Ability Actually Pretty Funny Chekhov's Skill Brainless Beauty Expository Hairstyle Change folderlabel The Load Light Is Not Good Vitriolic Best Buds Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Malevolent Masked Men Cruel and Unusual Death Posthumous Character Undying Loyalty Actor Allusion Call-Forward Demonic Possession Drill Sergeant Nasty The Remake Your Cheating Heart A Minor Kidroduction Asshole Victim Storming the Castle Death Seeker Tap on the Head What You Are in the Dark Eiffel Tower Effect Fanservice Small Name, Big Ego Covers Always Lie Made of Iron Amusing Injuries Back from the Dead And I Must Scream Camp Gay NO INDOOR VOICE Shower Scene Training Montage Kill It with Fire Big Bad Only a Flesh Wound Hero Antagonist Deliberately Monochrome Narrator Gratuitous English Evil vs. Evil Sexy Discretion Shot Department of Redundancy Department The Cameo Implacable Man Our Zombies Are Different Henpecked Husband Karmic Death Not Even Bothering with the Accent Artistic License – Geography Book-Ends The Voiceless Shell-Shocked Veteran Black Comedy Rape Really Gets Around Black Best Friend The Musical The Casanova Male Gaze Author Appeal Stuff Blowing Up Obstructive Bureaucrat Historical Villain Upgrade Vomit Indiscretion Shot Star-Crossed Lovers Slasher Movie An Aesop Italian Films Hair-Trigger Temper Bad Boss Fake Shemp Setting Update Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Twist Ending Creative Closing Credits French Films Rule of Symbolism Early-Bird Cameo It's Personal No Celebrities Were Harmed Better to Die than Be Killed Gilligan Cut Here We Go Again! Crazy Jealous Guy Reckless Gun Usage Depraved Bisexual Only Known by Their Nickname A Father to His Men Plucky Comic Relief Major Injury Underreaction Adaptational Villainy Mercy Kill Rule of Cool Black and Gray Morality Crapsack World Mundane Made Awesome Never My Fault Rated M for Manly Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hell Is That Noise Artistic License – Military O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Smart Guy Canadian Movies Tranquil Fury Broken Bird Scary Black Man Danny Peary Cult Movies List Chase Scene Didn't Think This Through 20 Minutes into the Future Lock and Load Montage Brick Joke Unresolved Sexual Tension Berserk Button Psycho for Hire Hollywood Law Laser-Guided Karma The Chessmaster Fan Disservice Victoria's Secret Compartment Overprotective Dad Corrupt Corporate Executive Bland-Name Product Roaring Rampage of Revenge Super Strength Cool Guns One Steve Limit Aluminum Christmas Trees Wham Line Boom, Headshot! 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Film Noir Darker and Edgier Not So Above It All Bloodless Carnage Immune to Bullets Ambiguously Gay Adorkable Cain and Abel Bavarian Fire Drill Anti-Villain Slashed Throat Final Girl Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Mama Bear B-Movie Call-Back Parental Substitute More Dakka Fun with Acronyms Determinator Reasonable Authority Figure Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Toplessness from the Back Shout-Out Drives Like Crazy Evil-Detecting Dog Badass Longcoat The Starscream Coming-of-Age Story Idiot Ball Early Installment Weirdness The '80s Show Within a Show Jerk Jock Russian Films No Antagonist Adaptational Badass Bittersweet Ending Author Avatar Card-Carrying Villain Punny Name Taking You with Me Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Developing Doomed Characters Christmas Movies Index Freeze-Frame Bonus And Starring Soft Glass Rich Bitch Credits Gag Bare Your Midriff Cool Old Guy He Who Fights Monsters Downer Ending "Well Done, Son!" Guy Authority Equals Asskicking Red Eyes, Take Warning Historical In-Joke Famous Last Words Annoying Younger Sibling Cool Old Lady Gold Digger Dark Action Girl Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Auto Erotica Gorn Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sacrificial Lion The Place Australian Movies Adults Are Useless Sci-Fi Horror Heroic BSoD Big Brother Instinct Fiery Redhead No Ending Cat Scare BFG Big Damn Heroes Mind Screw Kick the Son of a Bitch Pet the Dog Every Car Is a Pinto Defrosting Ice Queen Mythology Gag Celebrity Paradox Mighty Whitey No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Anyone Can Die Gainax Ending Grievous Bottley Harm Stylistic Suck Flashback Hoist by His Own Petard Only in It for the Money Shut Up, Hannibal! Break the Haughty Four-Temperament Ensemble Beauty Is Never Tarnished Anachronic Order For the Evulz Word of God Brutal Honesty For Want of a Nail Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Anachronism Stew What Happened to the Mouse? Catapult Nightmare Parental Incest Aside Glance Match Cut Smoking Is Cool Took a Level in Jerkass Comically Missing the Point Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dissonant Serenity Precision F-Strike Big "NO!" Suspiciously Specific Denial Smug Snake All Just a Dream Man on Fire Improbable Aiming Skills Woman in White Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Chick Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Grey and Gray Morality Guns Akimbo Does This Remind You of Anything? Artistic License – Physics Oh, Crap! 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Affably Evil Adaptational Attractiveness Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Protagonist Title The Ace In Medias Res Double Entendre Bait-and-Switch Heel–Face Turn The Film of the Book Batman Gambit Pyrrhic Victory Names to Run Away from Really Fast Broken Pedestal Logo Joke Non-Indicative Name Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass All There in the Script Not Using the "Z" Word My God, What Have I Done? Ominous Latin Chanting Creepy Child No-Sell In the Back Extremely Short Timespan She's Got Legs Closed Circle May–December Romance Knife Nut "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dressing as the Enemy Naked People Are Funny Action Survivor Off with His Head! 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Is a Crapshoot Hong Kong Films Genre Savvy Re-Cut Novelization Totally Radical Pre-Mortem One-Liner From Nobody to Nightmare Ambiguous Disorder Evil Plan Badass Bookworm Fainting Vampire Fiction Redshirt Army Rewatch Bonus Kubrick Stare Sequel Hook Eye Scream Disney Villain Death Affectionate Parody Those Two Bad Guys Would Hurt a Child Demoted to Extra Captain Obvious Composite Character Music Stories Have a Gay Old Time German Films Animal Motifs The Cavalry The Dragon Canon Foreigner Line-of-Sight Name Eyepatch of Power Break the Cutie Intergenerational Friendship Meet Cute Soundtrack Dissonance Whole Plot Reference Abhorrent Admirer My Greatest Failure It Will Never Catch On Badass Grandpa Ascended Extra Cold-Blooded Torture Stalker with a Crush Exactly What It Says on the Tin Madness Mantra Evil Sounds Deep Obviously Evil I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Made of Explodium Random Events Plot Bar Brawl Ripped from the Headlines The Sociopath A Date with Rosie Palms Action Prologue Plot Hole Deal with the Devil Last-Name Basis Sassy Black Woman I Did What I Had to Do Married to the Job Imagine Spot Does Not Like Shoes Beta Couple Dramatic Gun Cock Greater-Scope Villain Pay Evil unto Evil Disappeared Dad Corpsing Red Shirt Male Frontal Nudity Insistent Terminology Once More, with Clarity! Accidental Misnaming The Hero Dies Science Fiction Films Psychopathic Manchild From Bad to Worse Neck Lift Properly Paranoid Friend to All Children Suspiciously Similar Substitute Real Life Writes the Plot No OSHA Compliance Reality Has No Subtitles Bald of Evil No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Facial Horror Jerk with a Heart of Gold Leitmotif Tagline Yandere Country Matters Title Drop Getting Crap Past the Radar Evil Is Hammy Offscreen Moment of Awesome Manchild Dies Wide Open Damsel in Distress Nice Hat Destination Defenestration Real Life Those Two Guys Artistic License – Law Bullying a Dragon Beware the Nice Ones Biopic Moment Killer The Oner Love Triangle Outrun the Fireball Spanner in the Works Freudian Excuse Car Fu Very Loosely Based on a True Story Creator Cameo Body Horror Animal Title Index Eagleland All Girls Want Bad Boys Took a Level in Badass Femme Fatale Cowboy Cop Artistic License – History The Ditz Ghost Fiction Extreme Doormat Documentary Irony He Knows Too Much Blood from the Mouth You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Self-Deprecation Noodle Incident One-Man Army Never Trust a Trailer Good Is Not Nice No Name Given Bloodier and Gorier Silent Movie Tempting Fate Retired Badass Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Get Out! Gender Flip Armor-Piercing Question The '90s Abusive Parents Obfuscating Stupidity Kick the Dog Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Unusual Euphemism Curse Cut Short Did Not Get the Girl Spell My Name with an "S" Retirony I Have Your Wife Enemy Mine Rape as Drama Becoming the Mask Bloody Hilarious Expy As Himself Reality Ensues Stealth Pun Arranged Marriage The End... Or Is It? Deliberate Values Dissonance Hypocrite Kids Are Cruel Sir Swears-a-Lot MacGuffin Bring My Brown Pants All There in the Manual Villain Opening Scene Product Placement The Stoner Revenge Disproportionate Retribution Hooker with a Heart of Gold Attempted Rape Ship Tease Fingore Faking the Dead Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Badass in a Nice Suit Drugs Are Bad Big-Bad Ensemble Be Careful What You Wish For Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Not So Different Improvised Weapon Deus ex Machina Gory Discretion Shot "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Superhero Monumental Damage Kill 'em All Contrived Coincidence Meaningful Echo The Vamp Action Girl Animated Credits Opening Artistic License – Biology Suddenly SHOUTING! Your Head A-Splode Rousing Speech Cassandra Truth Not What It Looks Like Babies Ever After It's All About Me Five-Man Band An Axe to Grind Catch-Phrase Nothing Is Scarier Faux Affably Evil Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Epic Fail Crazy-Prepared Amoral Attorney Public Domain Feature Films Redemption Equals Death Left the Background Music On The Mole Nice Guy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Politically Incorrect Villain Historical Hero Upgrade Homage Dirty Coward Awesome, but Impractical Advertised Extra Scare Chord Hidden Depths Sequel Escalation Despair Event Horizon Martial Arts Movie Sinister Minister Dull Surprise Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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