Tropescilloscope: Coming-of-Age Story

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

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