Tropescilloscope: Coming-of-Age Story

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

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