Tropescilloscope: A Minor Kidroduction

A work starts with a brief scene of the protagonist as a child. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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