Tropescilloscope: Coming-of-Age Story

Main character matures into adulthood throughout story. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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