Tropescilloscope: Coming-of-Age Story

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

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