Tropescilloscope: Coming-of-Age Story

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

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