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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Tap on the Head Rasputinian Death Loophole Abuse Evil Sounds Deep Failed a Spot Check Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Ghost Fiction Vampire Fiction Knife Nut Cool Old Lady No Antagonist The Load Not Using the "Z" Word I Need a Freaking Drink Faking the Dead Retirony Those Wacky Nazis Face Death with Dignity Deus ex Machina Meaningful Background Event Vomit Discretion Shot Hero of Another Story Drugs Are Bad Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Unresolved Sexual Tension Nothing Is Scarier Implacable Man Deconstruction Tempting Fate Unreliable Narrator Skewed Priorities Villain Ball All There in the Script Gold Digger Enemy Mine Captain Ersatz Morality Pet Silence Is Golden Chekhov's Skill Chekhov's Gun Bad "Bad Acting" Back from the Dead Wham Line The Hero Dirty Cop Costume Porn Pre-Mortem One-Liner Adults Are Useless Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Large Ham Malevolent Masked Men Arc Words Bloody Hilarious Car Fu Historical-Domain Character Butt-Monkey I Did What I Had to Do Friend to All Children Funny Foreigner Time Skip The Stoner She's Got Legs Action Genre Fainting Madness Mantra Jump Scare Corpsing Adaptational Villainy Smug Snake Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Left the Background Music On What the Hell, Hero? Fate Worse than Death Word of God Parental Substitute Stealth Pun Breaking the Fourth Wall Black Best Friend Fourth Date Marriage Christmas Movies Index Taking the Bullet Amoral Attorney Guile Hero Hong Kong Films Police are Useless Frame-Up Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The '70s Kill 'em All Playing Gertrude Department of Redundancy Department Dressing as the Enemy Insistent Terminology Hidden Depths Rewatch Bonus Captain Obvious Four-Temperament Ensemble Motor Mouth The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Disney Death Blood from the Mouth Gainax Ending Room Full of Crazy Get Out! Smoking Is Cool O.O.C. 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They Really Do Love Each Other Even Evil Has Standards Alliterative Name Needs Wiki Magic Love Serial Killer Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Spanner in the Works Hypocrite Dark Action Girl Mercy Kill Artistic License – Law Soft Glass The Alcoholic Leaning on the Fourth Wall Beauty Is Never Tarnished Call-Forward Cassandra Truth Evil Brit Fat Bastard Black Comedy He Knows Too Much Sexy Discretion Shot Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Adaptational Badass Totally Radical Visual Pun Shell-Shocked Veteran Drives Like Crazy Henpecked Husband Dissonant Serenity Logo Joke Wounded Gazelle Gambit Sinister Minister Pay Evil unto Evil The Starscream In Medias Res Fatal Family Photo Not So Stoic Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Drill Sergeant Nasty Unwitting Instigator of Doom Amusing Injuries Villainous Breakdown Action Prologue Greater-Scope Villain Distracted by the Sexy The Ghost Parental Abandonment Beta Couple Twist Ending Driven to Suicide The Smart Guy Jerk with a Heart of Gold Artistic License – Military Artistic License – History My God, What Have I Done? Mr. Exposition The Oner Face–Heel Turn The X of Y Berserk Button Insane Troll Logic The Brute N-Word Privileges All Men Are Perverts Pretty in Mink Darkest Hour Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Race Against the Clock Put on a Bus Children Are Innocent The '50s Science Fiction Films Awesome, but Impractical The '90s "Shaggy Dog" Story Blood Knight Romantic False Lead Russian Films A.I. Is a Crapshoot Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Cameo The Great Depression Belligerent Sexual Tension Developing Doomed Characters Canon Foreigner Only One Name Action Girl Broken Bird The Lost Lenore Vomit Indiscretion Shot Grievous Bottley Harm Due to the Dead Bring My Brown Pants The Sociopath Re-Cut Dwindling Party Advertised Extra Stepford Smiler Pretty Little Headshots Shirtless Scene A Minor Kidroduction Evil-Detecting Dog Earn Your Happy Ending Depraved Bisexual Victoria's Secret Compartment Casting Gag Reality Ensues Title Drop Does Not Like Shoes Those Two Guys Evil Laugh Evil vs. Evil Revenge What You Are in the Dark I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Gratuitous English Our Zombies Are Different Closed Circle It's All About Me No Celebrities Were Harmed Unusually Uninteresting Sight Biopic Suddenly SHOUTING! Manly Tears Sacrificial Lion Bottomless Magazines Rich Bitch Extremely Short Timespan Cool Guns Off with His Head! 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Mighty Whitey Conspicuous CG Meaningful Name Fish out of Water Monumental Damage Daylight Horror Very Loosely Based on a True Story Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Fun with Acronyms Badass Boast Fingore Action Survivor My Beloved Smother Stalker with a Crush Mad Scientist Rousing Speech Establishing Character Moment Heterosexual Life-Partners Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Maybe Ever After NO INDOOR VOICE Television Movie Index Anti-Hero Hero Antagonist Corrupt Corporate Executive Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Demoted to Extra Sir Swears-a-Lot Obfuscating Stupidity Those Two Bad Guys Expy Cat Fight Despair Event Horizon Properly Paranoid Shower Scene Determinator Brick Joke Break the Cutie Rated M for Manly Exact Words Male Frontal Nudity Bland-Name Product Redshirt Army The Atoner Foil Chase Scene Slashed Throat Cloudcuckoolander Pragmatic Villainy Ungrateful Bastard Death by Adaptation Slasher Smile Never Trust a Trailer Outrun the Fireball Fantasy Films Sequel Escalation Straight Gay Arranged Marriage Took a Level in Badass MacGuffin Novelization Abhorrent Admirer Shown Their Work Riddle for the Ages Pragmatic Adaptation Spared by the Adaptation Handicapped Badass Humans Are Bastards Adapted Out Ass Shove An Axe to Grind As Long as It Sounds Foreign Affectionate Parody Mind Screw The Dreaded The Alleged Car Love Triangle Bloodless Carnage Really Gets Around Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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