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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B-Movie Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Papa Wolf Not Even Bothering with the Accent Intrepid Reporter Be Careful What You Wish For Your Cheating Heart Crucified Hero Shot Bait-and-Switch Insane Troll Logic The Reveal Eiffel Tower Effect Cruel and Unusual Death "The Reason You Suck" Speech Russian Films Fate Worse than Death The Film of the Book Humans Are Bastards Advertised Extra Hypocritical Humor Alpha Bitch Determinator Badass in a Nice Suit Ambiguous Disorder Captain Obvious Greater-Scope Villain Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Gory Discretion Shot He Knows Too Much Broken Pedestal Shipper on Deck Maybe Ever After Villain Opening Scene Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Manchild Sexy Discretion Shot Large Ham Properly Paranoid One-Man Army Police Brutality Product Placement Ambiguously Gay Curse Cut Short Abusive Parents Historical-Domain Character Mexican Standoff The Big Guy Woman Scorned Rule of Three Biopic A Minor Kidroduction Missing Mom From Bad to Worse Gilligan Cut Early-Bird Cameo Romantic False Lead Expy Guns Akimbo Heel Realization Paper-Thin Disguise Historical Hero Upgrade Dressing as the Enemy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hollywood Law Reasonable Authority Figure You Have Failed Me Villain with Good Publicity Villainous Breakdown I Did What I Had to Do He Who Fights Monsters Dull Surprise I Need a Freaking Drink Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dirty Old Man Sir Swears-a-Lot Silence Is Golden Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The '90s Shoot the Shaggy Dog Heterosexual Life-Partners Storming the Castle The Mafia Dark Reprise Broken Bird In the Back Death Seeker Retired Badass Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Lost Lenore Happily Married Action Girl Reckless Gun Usage Vomit Discretion Shot Spell My Name with an "S" The Ghost Animated Credits Opening O.O.C. Is Serious Business Tagline Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Visual Pun Alas, Poor Villain Double Entendre Funny Foreigner Good Is Not Nice Ascended Extra Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Betty and Veronica Only One Name Brother–Sister Incest Vomit Indiscretion Shot Pragmatic Villainy Half the Man He Used to Be Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Reality Ensues Big Fancy House Drowning My Sorrows Sinister Minister Rated M for Manly Villain Song Sports Stories Animal Title Index Slasher Smile Depraved Bisexual Anguished Declaration of Love Obviously Evil In Name Only Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Wrong Genre Savvy The Ditz Random Events Plot Foregone Conclusion Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dramatic Gun Cock Soundtrack Dissonance Friend to All Children Only Sane Man Logo Joke Reality Has No Subtitles Affectionate Parody Spanner in the Works Failed a Spot Check Deadpan Snarker Dark Is Not Evil Overprotective Dad Truth in Television Peek-a-Boo Corpse All There in the Manual Insult Backfire Final Girl The Alleged Car Cowboy Cop Heroic BSoD Obstructive Bureaucrat The Alcoholic Deus ex Machina Abhorrent Admirer Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Hero of Another Story Authority Equals Asskicking Character Development Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Grey and Gray Morality Serious Business Get Out! The '50s Ghost Fiction The Stoic Combat Pragmatist It Can Think Death of a Child Humiliation Conga Death by Sex Hate Sink Coming-of-Age Story Rule of Cool Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Adults Are Useless Central Theme Establishing Character Moment The Power of Love Bowdlerise One Steve Limit Fingore Dies Wide Open Once More, with Clarity! Setting Update Stock Footage Earn Your Happy Ending The Casanova Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds What Happened to the Mouse? Men Are the Expendable Gender Interrupted Suicide Big "NO!" Male Frontal Nudity Karma Houdini Fake Shemp All Girls Want Bad Boys Spared by the Adaptation Sadistic Choice Dark Action Girl Meaningful Echo Dumb Blonde Darkest Hour Shirtless Scene Homage Line-of-Sight Name Driven to Suicide Hope Spot True Companions Parental Abandonment Enemy Mine Big-Bad Ensemble Lampshade Hanging Suddenly SHOUTING! Big Applesauce Evil-Detecting Dog Recycled IN SPACE! Evil Is Petty Animal Motifs Pimped-Out Dress Historical Villain Upgrade Not What It Looks Like Unspoken Plan Guarantee Hollywood Darkness French Films Soft Glass Would Hurt a Child I'm a Humanitarian An Arm and a Leg Blood Knight Playing Gertrude Bland-Name Product Beware the Nice Ones Artistic License – Military Berserk Button Blatant Lies Celebrity Paradox Plot Hole Evil Counterpart Red Eyes, Take Warning Wham Shot Framing Device Stylistic Suck Dirty Cop The Chick Country Matters "Awesome McCool" Name Novelization Artistic License – Physics Heroic Sacrifice Pretty in Mink Daddy's Girl Stuff Blowing Up Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Artistic License – History Adaptation Dye-Job Anti-Hero No OSHA Compliance Non-Indicative Name The Ace Italian Films Freeze-Frame Bonus After the End Daylight Horror Together in Death May–December Romance Mr. Fanservice Bound and Gagged Agony of the Feet Bad "Bad Acting" Darker and Edgier Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Music Stories Developing Doomed Characters Fiery Redhead Genre Throwback The Lancer Department of Redundancy Department Title Drop Japanese Films The Cavalry Accidental Misnaming Fantasy Films Fish out of Water Adult Fear Intergenerational Friendship Epic Fail Whole Plot Reference Shut Up, Hannibal! The '70s Stealth Pun Pay Evil unto Evil Gorn Kick the Son of a Bitch No Antagonist Show Within a Show Arc Words Narrator The Sociopath Woman in White Naked People Are Funny Amoral Attorney Big Bad Duumvirate Black Best Friend A God Am I Red Oni, Blue Oni Room Full of Crazy Gone Horribly Right Auto Erotica Scary Black Man Improvised Weapon Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Tranquil Fury Big Damn Heroes Book-Ends You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Wicked Cultured Love at First Sight Call-Back Undying Loyalty All for Nothing "Shaggy Dog" Story Antagonist Title Crazy-Prepared Nice Guy Cold-Blooded Torture Made of Explodium Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dwindling Party Toplessness from the Back And the Adventure Continues Smug Snake Major Injury Underreaction Black and Gray Morality Eye Scream Genre Savvy Almost Kiss Skewed Priorities Kill It with Fire Not Using the "Z" Word Laser-Guided Karma Pretty Little Headshots She's Got Legs The X of Y Cluster F-Bomb Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Horror Comedy It's Personal Body Horror Mistaken for Gay Blood from the Mouth More Dakka Accidental Murder Politically Incorrect Villain The Smurfette Principle Kill 'em All For Want of a Nail Only in It for the Money All Just a Dream Extreme Doormat And I Must Scream Refuge in Audacity Cloudcuckoolander Mythology Gag All Men Are Perverts Revenge Roaring Rampage of Revenge Disappeared Dad Australian Movies Dirty Coward Everyone Has Standards Shell-Shocked Veteran Genre Shift Aside Glance MacGuffin Famous Last Words In Medias Res Expository Hairstyle Change Horror Films Man on Fire Faux Affably Evil Say My Name Knight Templar Chiaroscuro Ms. Fanservice Off with His Head! Apocalypse How Air-Vent Passageway Took a Level in Jerkass Hell Is That Noise Adaptational Attractiveness Stepford Smiler For the Evulz Crapsack World Manipulative Bastard Never My Fault Corpsing The Atoner Evil Plan A Date with Rosie Palms Black Comedy Adaptational Heroism Film Noir Index Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adapted Out Costume Porn Didn't Think This Through Red Right Hand Artistic License – Biology Bolivian Army Ending Demoted to Extra What You Are in the Dark Defiant to the End Based on a True Story Cain and Abel Fatal Flaw Gratuitous English Cat Fight Bilingual Bonus Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Trailers Always Spoil Bloodier and Gorier The Bully Better to Die than Be Killed Crazy Jealous Guy Ominous Latin Chanting Beta Couple Exactly What It Says on the Tin Asshole Victim Butt-Monkey Serial Killer Totally Radical Aluminum Christmas Trees Index of Film Westerns Captain Ersatz Mood Whiplash Rousing Speech The Hero Brutal Honesty Danny Peary Cult Movies List Overly Long Gag Flashback Worthy Opponent Instant Death Bullet Mr. Exposition Cool Guns Fire-Forged Friends Slasher Movie Spiteful Spit Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sacrificial Lion The Starscream Jitter Cam Moment Killer folderlabel Poor Communication Kills From Nobody to Nightmare Tap on the Head Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Cat Scare Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Frame-Up Only a Flesh Wound The Place Distracted by the Sexy Rewatch Bonus Bring My Brown Pants Destination Defenestration Superhero Award-Bait Song Pre-Mortem One-Liner Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Punch-Clock Villain Very Loosely Based on a True Story Last-Name Basis Film Series Double-Meaning Title Jerkass Has a Point Domestic Abuse Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Every Car Is a Pinto Precision F-Strike Deconstruction I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Sassy Black Woman Fatal Family Photo Reality Is Unrealistic Camera Abuse Beard of Evil Mugging the Monster Shout-Out Contrived Coincidence Evil Brit Four-Temperament Ensemble Our Zombies Are Different Those Two Guys Same Language Dub Anachronism Stew Neck Snap Creepy Child Sequel Escalation Mercy Kill Evil Laugh Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Break the Cutie Lock and Load Montage Adaptation Expansion Self-Deprecation Unresolved Sexual Tension The Great Depression Jerkass Eyepatch of Power Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Fat Bastard Match Cut Noodle Incident Disney Villain Death Freudian Excuse Drives Like Crazy Fourth Date Marriage Bond One-Liner Training Montage Ambiguous Ending As the Good Book Says... 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Our Vampires Are Different Comically Missing the Point The Hero Dies Becoming the Mask Covers Always Lie Screw the Money, I Have Rules! I Have Your Wife Immune to Bullets Chewing the Scenery Only Known by Their Nickname Video Credits Take a Third Option Vitriolic Best Buds Arranged Marriage Light Is Not Good Put on a Bus Offscreen Moment of Awesome Monumental Damage Annoying Younger Sibling Left the Background Music On Lighter and Softer Straight Gay Artistic License – Law Historical In-Joke As Long as It Sounds Foreign Artistic License – Geography Market-Based Title Pet the Dog Male Gaze Beauty Is Never Tarnished '80s Hair Cool Car The Stoner Evil vs. Evil My Greatest Failure The End... Or Is It? Actor Allusion Riddle for the Ages Breaking the Fourth Wall Works Set in World War II The Quiet One Retcon Death Glare Scare Chord Death by Irony War Is Hell Bloody Hilarious Face Death with Dignity World of Ham Damsel in Distress Groin Attack The Oner Fantastic Racism Ripped from the Headlines Dissonant Serenity Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Improbable Aiming Skills Cool Old Lady Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Ship Tease Due to the Dead Easily Forgiven The Stinger Love Triangle Five-Man Band 20 Minutes into the Future The Dreaded Hair-Trigger Temper Drill Sergeant Nasty Insistent Terminology Decoy Protagonist Chase Scene Oh, Crap! 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Death by Adaptation Composite Character Nothing Is Scarier Sequel Hook Redshirt Army Badass Normal Improbable Weapon User A Father to His Men Martial Arts Movie Demonic Possession Bar Brawl No Name Given Defrosting Ice Queen Meaningful Background Event Call-Forward Psycho for Hire Not So Stoic Suspiciously Similar Substitute Important Haircut Badass Longcoat Naïve Newcomer The Dog Bites Back Chekhov's Skill Disguised in Drag Calling the Old Man Out Chekhov's Gun Face–Heel Turn Deliberately Monochrome Take That! Posthumous Character The Vamp Hidden Depths Catapult Nightmare "Well Done, Son!" Guy Gainax Ending Rich Bitch Took a Level in Badass Irony The Cameo Super Strength Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Anti-Villain Scenery Gorn Brick Joke Bavarian Fire Drill Amusing Injuries Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Word of God Curb-Stomp Battle Film Noir Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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