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 Captain Obvious Anti-Villain Actually Pretty Funny Rule of Three Fish out of Water It's Personal Depraved Bisexual Mistaken for Gay Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ambiguously Gay You Have Failed Me Ugly Guy, Hot Wife She's Got Legs Corrupt Corporate Executive Badass Normal Daylight Horror Toplessness from the Back Demonic Possession Politically Incorrect Villain Get Out! Rule of Funny Too Dumb to Live Aside Glance Badass Longcoat Evil vs. Evil Big Damn Heroes Crucified Hero Shot Not So Different Book-Ends Bittersweet Ending Belligerent Sexual Tension Auto Erotica Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Celebrity Paradox Does Not Like Shoes The Brute Knife Nut Villain Protagonist Card-Carrying Villain Dark and Troubled Past Gender Flip Novelization Blatant Lies Have a Gay Old Time All Men Are Perverts Once More, with Clarity! N-Word Privileges Your Head A-Splode Flipping the Bird Adaptation Expansion Trailers Always Spoil Artistic License – Geography Every Car Is a Pinto Double Entendre timeperiod Red Eyes, Take Warning Fourth Date Marriage Sole Survivor Dying Moment of Awesome Sequel Hook Fiery Redhead Badass Bookworm All Just a Dream Mood Whiplash Italian Films I Have Your Wife Mr. Exposition Humans Are Bastards Really Gets Around Four-Temperament Ensemble The Stinger Those Two Bad Guys Race Against the Clock Badass Boast Rich Bitch Totally Radical Foreshadowing Plot Hole Male Gaze The Lancer Ms. Fanservice Evil Is Hammy Needs Wiki Magic Love Coming-of-Age Story Darker and Edgier Captain Ersatz Evil Brit Rousing Speech Bowdlerise Ascended Extra Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sinister Minister One-Man Army The Un-Reveal "Awesome McCool" Name Big-Bad Ensemble Happily Married Naïve Newcomer Jump Scare It Will Never Catch On Love Triangle Break the Cutie Bald of Evil Man on Fire Animal Motifs Psycho for Hire Roaring Rampage of Revenge Not So Above It All Flashback Abusive Parents Cat Fight Cassandra Truth Pretty Little Headshots Black Best Friend Anyone Can Die Never My Fault Up to Eleven Bring My Brown Pants Combat Pragmatist Brainless Beauty Death by Irony Dirty Coward Blackmail Irony In Medias Res Non-Indicative Name Beta Couple Cat Scare Gainax Ending Adapted Out Dull Surprise Contrived Coincidence Monumental Damage Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Meaningful Name Moment Killer Artistic License – Gun Safety Only One Name I Need a Freaking Drink Military and Warfare Films The Stoic Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Slasher Movie Sports Stories Character Development Manchild Dramedy Framing Device Shout-Out Blood from the Mouth Undying Loyalty MacGuffin Big Bad Arch-Enemy Henpecked Husband Whole Plot Reference Dogged Nice Guy How We Got Here Downer Ending Early-Bird Cameo Bullying a Dragon The Power of Love Badass Grandpa Asshole Victim Easily Forgiven Empathic Environment Manipulative Bastard Black and Gray Morality Twist Ending Offscreen Teleportation Sassy Black Woman Wham Shot Soundtrack Dissonance Aluminum Christmas Trees Sadistic Choice Those Two Guys The Smart Guy Fat Bastard Deliberate Values Dissonance Shoot the Shaggy Dog "Shaggy Dog" Story Catch-Phrase Mystery and Detective Films Kill It with Fire The Lost Lenore I'm a Humanitarian Lampshade Hanging Death by Sex Stylistic Suck Camera Abuse Super Strength Action Prologue Bottomless Magazines Biopic Only Sane Man Mexican Standoff Dark Is Not Evil Hell Is That Noise Defiant to the End Accidental Misnaming Brutal Honesty Gory Discretion Shot Running Gag Epic Fail Make It Look Like an Accident Paper-Thin Disguise The Voiceless Dirty Cop Hope Spot Abhorrent Admirer Shipper on Deck Smug Snake Spell My Name with an "S" Driven to Suicide Artistic License – History The Vamp Important Haircut Death of a Child Establishing Character Moment Broken Bird Villainous Breakdown Ghost Fiction All Girls Want Bad Boys Lock and Load Montage Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Alliterative Name Enemy Mine Intrepid Reporter Jerkass Has a Point Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Laughing Mad Foil Insane Troll Logic No Celebrities Were Harmed For the Evulz Alpha Bitch Hollywood Darkness Visual Pun Names to Run Away from Really Fast Adaptational Badass The Mafia Action Genre Eldritch Abomination Mr. Fanservice Hero Antagonist Continuity Nod Tap on the Head A.I. Is a Crapshoot Hypocrite And I Must Scream Instant Death Bullet You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Rule of Cool Faking the Dead The Remake Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Alleged Car Hong Kong Films Sir Swears-a-Lot The Smurfette Principle The Place Bad Boss Playing Gertrude Drives Like Crazy Green-Eyed Monster Historical Villain Upgrade Zombie Stories Funny Background Event Guns Akimbo Adaptational Attractiveness Country Matters Villain Song Nice Hat Match Cut Gilligan Cut Berserk Button Rape as Drama Dark Action Girl '80s Hair Cool Old Lady Wicked Cultured Overly Long Gag Revenge Breaking the Fourth Wall Offscreen Moment of Awesome Pyrrhic Victory Australian Movies Small Name, Big Ego Distracted by the Sexy Hypocritical Humor Calling the Old Man Out Loophole Abuse Bolivian Army Ending Leave the Camera Running Rewatch Bonus Retirony No-Sell I Did What I Had to Do The Stoner Same Language Dub Killed Mid-Sentence Creepy Child As Long as It Sounds Foreign Cruel and Unusual Death Psychological Thriller Public Domain Feature Films Malevolent Masked Men Actor Allusion Straight Gay Mercy Kill Scare Chord Daddy's Girl This Is Gonna Suck Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome There Is No Kill Like Overkill Re-Cut Psychopathic Manchild Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Retcon The Ace Award-Bait Song For Want of a Nail The '70s Decoy Protagonist Redemption Equals Death Very Loosely Based on a True Story Sci-Fi Horror Chiaroscuro Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Antagonist Title Not So Stoic The '60s Karma Houdini Apocalypse How Loads and Loads of Characters Improvised Weapon Tempting Fate Cluster F-Bomb The Chessmaster Bar Brawl Last-Name Basis It's All About Me Cold-Blooded Torture Hooker with a Heart of Gold Parental Incest The '90s Bury Your Gays Overprotective Dad Interrupted Suicide The Ditz The Cavalry Shell-Shocked Veteran Serious Business Genre Savvy Neck Snap Horror Comedy Spiritual Successor Camp Gay Advertised Extra The '50s What Happened to the Mouse? Ripped from the Headlines Becoming the Mask Tagline Chekhov's Skill Leaning on the Fourth Wall French Films Immune to Bullets Unspoken Plan Guarantee Made of Explodium The Film of the Book Redshirt Army Pragmatic Adaptation Obfuscating Stupidity Closed Circle Not What It Looks Like Sacrificial Lion He Knows Too Much Chase Scene The Dog Bites Back Maybe Ever After Morality Pet Truth in Television Our Vampires Are Different Gold Digger Room Full of Crazy Artistic License – Biology Vomit Discretion Shot Deal with the Devil Mugging the Monster The Chick Catapult Nightmare Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday No OSHA Compliance Fanservice The Quiet One Product Placement Take a Third Option Exactly What It Says on the Tin Big Applesauce No Ending Film Noir Index Creative Closing Credits Guile Hero Yandere Skewed Priorities Fake Shemp Took a Level in Badass Tranquil Fury Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Big Bad Duumvirate Developing Doomed Characters Evil-Detecting Dog Fingore Kids Are Cruel Setting Update Reasonable Authority Figure You Killed My Father Drill Sergeant Nasty British Films Costume Porn Fatal Flaw Mind Screw Fatal Family Photo Title Drop Does This Remind You of Anything? The X of Y Dual Wielding Manly Tears Properly Paranoid Storming the Castle The Starscream Deliberately Monochrome Taking You with Me Chekhov's Gun No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Action Survivor Ironic Echo Hollywood Law Femme Fatale Kick the Dog Show Within a Show Fainting The Dragon Bloodier and Gorier Dressing as the Enemy Red Oni, Blue Oni Epic Movie Brick Joke Television Movie Index Hidden Depths Funny Foreigner Only in It for the Money Face Death with Dignity Refuge in Audacity Red Herring Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Big Fancy House Line-of-Sight Name Dumb Blonde Let's Get Dangerous! Boom, Headshot! Bland-Name Product Deus ex Machina My Beloved Smother Victoria's Secret Compartment Punctuated! For! Emphasis! What You Are in the Dark Ambiguous Disorder Informed Ability Death by Adaptation Extreme Doormat Madness Mantra No Name Given Friend to All Children Meet Cute Extremely Short Timespan Never Found the Body Men Are the Expendable Gender Real Life The Load Arranged Marriage Bi the Way Disguised in Drag Mythology Gag Armor-Piercing Question Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Suspiciously Similar Substitute Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Together in Death Retired Badass Brother–Sister Incest Danny Peary Cult Movies List Babies Ever After Recycled IN SPACE! Jitter Cam Bunny-Ears Lawyer Papa Wolf Major Injury Underreaction Artistic License – Physics Imagine Spot Vitriolic Best Buds Didn't Think This Through Awesome, but Impractical Greater-Scope Villain Punch-Clock Villain Taking the Bullet Police are Useless All There in the Manual War Is Hell Throwing Your Sword Always Works La Résistance Karmic Death Those Wacky Nazis Shut Up, Hannibal! Not Using the "Z" Word Authority Equals Asskicking Translation Convention Rated M for Manly Bavarian Fire Drill Cool Car Made of Iron Death Seeker Heel Realization Slasher Smile Heterosexual Life-Partners Bond Villain Stupidity Punny Name Fantasy Films A Date with Rosie Palms Motor Mouth Police Brutality Disney Villain Death Freeze-Frame Bonus Evil Counterpart Gorn B-Movie Soft Glass Adaptation Name Change Blood Knight German Films Ship Tease Eureka Moment From Bad to Worse Freudian Excuse The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Call-Back Butt-Monkey Adult Fear Frame-Up Author Avatar The Casanova Disproportionate Retribution Badass in a Nice Suit Failed a Spot Check Ambiguous Ending In the Back Hero of Another Story Famous Last Words Wretched Hive Implacable Man Market-Based Title Not Quite Dead Unresolved Sexual Tension Off with His Head! The Reveal Age Lift Fun with Acronyms Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Sociopath Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Adaptation Distillation O.O.C. Is Serious Business Foregone Conclusion Due to the Dead Self-Deprecation Dropped a Bridge on Him I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Red Right Hand Scenery Gorn Spanner in the Works Thriller Genre Shift Based on a True Story Evil Laugh Improbable Aiming Skills He Who Fights Monsters Stuff Blowing Up Fantastic Racism Evil Is Petty Deadpan Snarker My God, What Have I Done? Gratuitous English Villain Ball And the Adventure Continues Love at First Sight Fan Disservice Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Fire-Forged Friends Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Cowboy Cop Serial Killer Early Installment Weirdness All for Nothing An Axe to Grind Determinator Ominous Latin Chanting Expository Hairstyle Change Obviously Evil The Cameo Groin Attack Red Shirt Real Life Writes the Plot Humiliation Conga Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Car Fu Conspicuous CG Shower Scene The Oner Spiteful Spit Superhero Race Lift Dramatic Gun Cock Worthy Opponent Everyone Has Standards Wounded Gazelle Gambit "The Reason You Suck" Speech Unwitting Instigator of Doom Five-Man Band Dissonant Serenity Intergenerational Friendship Vomit Indiscretion Shot Pay Evil unto Evil Smoking Is Cool The Big Guy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Random Events Plot May–December Romance Silence Is Golden Unusually Uninteresting Sight Kill 'em All Amoral Attorney Mooks Kick the Son of a Bitch Casting Gag Bond One-Liner Music Stories Suspiciously Specific Denial Suddenly SHOUTING! NO INDOOR VOICE Logo Joke Woman Scorned Good Is Not Nice Hair-Trigger Temper Narrator Bare Your Midriff Destination Defenestration Exact Words Wham Line Cool Old Guy Adorkable Canon Foreigner Big "NO!" After the End Eyepatch of Power Air-Vent Passageway Be Careful What You Wish For Improbable Weapon User BFG Eagleland Batman Gambit Oh, Crap! Accidental Murder Chekhov's Gunman Annoying Younger Sibling Martial Arts Movie Mama Bear Training Montage Pre-Mortem One-Liner It Can Think True Companions Our Zombies Are Different Stock Footage Wrong Genre Savvy The Great Depression All There in the Script Film Noir "Well Done, Son!" Guy Eye Scream Neck Lift Obstructive Bureaucrat Reality Ensues Break the Haughty Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Star-Crossed Lovers Animal Title Index A Minor Kidroduction Historical-Domain Character Beware the Nice Ones "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Noodle Incident Disney Death Defrosting Ice Queen The Atoner One Steve Limit Drugs Are Bad Dramatic Irony Affably Evil Black Comedy Rape Stealth Hi/Bye Ass Shove Knight Templar An Arm and a Leg Department of Redundancy Department Time Skip The '80s Older Than They Look Anti-Hero Bound and Gagged Faux Affably Evil Fate Worse than Death Stealth Pun Never Trust a Trailer The End... Or Is It? Idiot Ball No Antagonist Broken Aesop A Father to His Men Hate Sink Put on a Bus Your Cheating Heart Dirty Old Man Domestic Abuse Cool Shades Heroic BSoD Chewing the Scenery Broken Pedestal Manic Pixie Dream Girl Say My Name Better to Die than Be Killed Kubrick Stare Unusual Euphemism Reckless Gun Usage Pragmatic Villainy She Cleans Up Nicely Cool Guns Scary Black Man Parental Substitute I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Even Evil Has Loved Ones Reality Has No Subtitles One-Word Title Jerk Jock Attempted Rape Film Series Heroic Sacrifice Big Brother Instinct Despair Event Horizon Token Minority Crazy Jealous Guy Hoist by His Own Petard Laser-Guided Karma Animated Credits Opening Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Half the Man He Used to Be Final Girl Handicapped Badass As Himself Drowning My Sorrows Anachronism Stew Artistic License – Military Male Frontal Nudity Parental Neglect Adaptational Villainy Mighty Whitey The Hero Dies Credits Gag Author Appeal Cain and Abel Protagonist Title Big Eater Genre Throwback Amusing Injuries Japanese Films Gone Horribly Right Here We Go Again! Historical Hero Upgrade Scenery Porn Getting Crap Past the Radar Heroes Want Redheads Bloody Hilarious Large Ham Dies Wide Open Corpsing Sanity Slippage Ungrateful Bastard Sequel Escalation Insult Backfire Christmas Movies Index A God Am I My Greatest Failure Anguished Declaration of Love Lighter and Softer Cloudcuckoolander Insistent Terminology Curb-Stomp Battle Peek-a-Boo Corpse Arc Words Death Glare World of Ham Evil Sounds Deep The Ghost Reality Is Unrealistic More Dakka Shown Their Work Science Fiction Films Leitmotif An Aesop Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Disappeared Dad Curse Cut Short Comically Missing the Point The Musical Agony of the Feet Call-Forward Would Hurt a Child The Faceless Posthumous Character Slashed Throat Dutch Angle As the Good Book Says... Body Horror Diabolus ex Machina The Hero Betty and Veronica Nothing Is Scarier Honor Before Reason Bait-and-Switch Plucky Comic Relief Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Naked People Are Funny Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Canadian Movies Homage The Bully Demoted to Extra Adaptation Dye-Job Ax-Crazy Mad Scientist Silent Movie Vacation Films folderlabel Unreliable Narrator Bad "Bad Acting" Woman in White In Name Only Well-Intentioned Extremist Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Covers Always Lie Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Sealed Evil in a Can 20 Minutes into the Future Light Is Not Good Stepford Smiler Slap-Slap-Kiss Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Rasputinian Death Dwindling Party Alas, Poor Villain The Dreaded Artistic License – Law Rule of Symbolism Children Are Innocent Outrun the Fireball Video Credits Take That! Facial Horror Only a Flesh Wound As You Know Meaningful Echo Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Central Theme Expy Russian Films Sexy Discretion Shot Works Set in World War II Pet the Dog Beauty Is Never Tarnished Adults Are Useless Jerkass Nice Guy Would Hit a Girl Left the Background Music On Creator Cameo Romantic False Lead Villain with Good Publicity Earn Your Happy Ending Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Beard of Evil Vampire Fiction Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Face–Heel Turn Fanservice Extra Mundane Made Awesome Index of Film Westerns Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Missing Mom Word of God Horror Films Poor Communication Kills The Mole The Bad Guy Wins Grievous Bottley Harm Crapsack World Did Not Get the Girl Double-Meaning Title From Nobody to Nightmare Even Evil Has Standards Evil Plan Darkest Hour Took a Level in Jerkass Deconstruction Adaptational Heroism Composite Character Grey and Gray Morality What the Hell, Hero? Meaningful Background Event Damsel in Distress Historical In-Joke You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Determinator aka: The Determinator Only Known by Their Nickname And Starring Bloodless Carnage Pimped-Out Dress Affectionate Parody Riddle for the Ages Shirtless Scene Romantic Comedy Spared by the Adaptation Back from the Dead Pretty in Mink Heel–Face Turn Stalker with a Crush Black Dude Dies First Almost Kiss The Alcoholic Married to the Job Eiffel Tower Effect Bilingual Bonus Documentary Crazy-Prepared Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Villain Opening Scene Parental Abandonment Dark Reprise Action Girl Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Black Comedy Jerk with a Heart of Gold Precision F-Strike Anachronic Order