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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Is Serious Business Roaring Rampage of Revenge Did Not Get the Girl Comically Missing the Point Body Horror Expository Hairstyle Change Rule of Cool Rule of Three The Reveal Not Quite Dead The Hero Arranged Marriage Red Eyes, Take Warning Henpecked Husband Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Soundtrack Dissonance Loophole Abuse Everyone Has Standards And I Must Scream Adaptation Expansion Homage Betty and Veronica Super Strength The Quiet One Does This Remind You of Anything? Pet the Dog Every Car Is a Pinto MacGuffin Mama Bear Face–Heel Turn Pimped-Out Dress Reasonable Authority Figure Obstructive Bureaucrat Smug Snake Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Gainax Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Good Is Not Nice Dropped a Bridge on Him Gone Horribly Right Four-Temperament Ensemble Pragmatic Villainy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Funny Foreigner Shipper on Deck Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bond One-Liner Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Failed a Spot Check Madness Mantra Pay Evil unto Evil Black Comedy Rape Superhero Redshirt Army An Arm and a Leg Evil-Detecting Dog The '80s Author Appeal No Ending Developing Doomed Characters Zombie Stories Deus ex Machina Malevolent Masked Men Big-Bad Ensemble Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Bully Animated Credits Opening Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Television Movie Index Serious Business Leave the Camera Running Brainless Beauty Adults Are Useless Deliberate Values Dissonance Say My Name Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Too Dumb to Live Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene I'm a Humanitarian Missing Mom Bilingual Bonus Video Credits Bowdlerise Friend to All Children Retcon Animal Motifs Neck Snap Stylistic Suck Fire-Forged Friends Conspicuous CG Evil Is Hammy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Manly Tears Sanity Slippage Villain with Good Publicity Determinator aka: The Determinator Karma Houdini Does Not Like Shoes Death by Adaptation Spared by the Adaptation Red Herring Adaptational Heroism Cat Fight Hell Is That Noise Disguised in Drag Punny Name Fish out of Water Armor-Piercing Question Race Lift Black and Gray Morality Freeze-Frame Bonus Fatal Flaw Black Dude Dies First Biopic Bait-and-Switch Yandere Evil Plan And the Adventure Continues Ambiguous Disorder Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie It's Personal Laughing Mad Call-Back Romantic False Lead Central Theme Bottomless Magazines Domestic Abuse Irony Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Downer Ending Based on a True Story "Where Are They Now?" 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The Load The Dreaded Works Set in World War II Dual Wielding One-Word Title Fantastic Racism Attempted Rape Setting Update Actually Pretty Funny Hypocritical Humor Male Gaze Corpsing Slashed Throat Awesome, but Impractical Better to Die than Be Killed All There in the Script Once More, with Clarity! The Big Guy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hong Kong Films Vomit Discretion Shot Establishing Character Moment Victoria's Secret Compartment Man on Fire It's All About Me Deconstruction Femme Fatale Rasputinian Death Real Life Grey and Gray Morality Maybe Ever After Blood Knight This Is Gonna Suck Face Death with Dignity Loads and Loads of Characters Improbable Weapon User Villain Ball Beware the Nice Ones Straight Gay Hollywood Law Exactly What It Says on the Tin Vitriolic Best Buds Needs Wiki Magic Love Morality Pet Our Vampires Are Different Kids Are Cruel Extreme Doormat Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Nothing Is Scarier Badass Grandpa Artistic License – History Cat Scare Grievous Bottley Harm Unspoken Plan Guarantee Red Shirt Book-Ends Blackmail Dumb Blonde Silence Is Golden Big Applesauce Crazy Jealous Guy Advertised Extra Star-Crossed Lovers Captain Obvious Killed Mid-Sentence Heel–Face Turn Big Damn Heroes Evil Counterpart Insane Troll Logic Award-Bait Song Pyrrhic Victory Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Unusually Uninteresting Sight Hair-Trigger Temper Adaptation Name Change After the End Genre Shift Martial Arts Movie Genre Throwback What You Are in the Dark Wham Shot Naked People Are Funny Adaptation Dye-Job Genre Savvy Five-Man Band Instant Death Bullet Ship Tease Flashback Logo Joke Crucified Hero Shot A.I. Is a Crapshoot Accidental Murder Mind Screw Manipulative Bastard Red Right Hand Meet Cute Breaking the Fourth Wall Hero of Another Story Bittersweet Ending Babies Ever After Combat Pragmatist Affably Evil Bavarian Fire Drill Double Entendre Early-Bird Cameo Foreshadowing Scenery Gorn Intergenerational Friendship Those Two Bad Guys For Want of a Nail Creative Closing Credits Self-Deprecation Faking the Dead Belligerent Sexual Tension Happily Married Mood Whiplash Really Gets Around The Sociopath Imagine Spot Oh, Crap! 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Fainting Age Lift Didn't Think This Through Dark Reprise Damsel in Distress N-Word Privileges Sealed Evil in a Can The '50s Parental Abandonment Science Fiction Films Cool Car I Have Your Wife Cool Old Guy Big Bad Duumvirate