Tropescilloscope: Coming-of-Age Story

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

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Take a Third Option Heel Realization Very Loosely Based on a True Story Double-Meaning Title Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Unreliable Narrator Ominous Latin Chanting Red Herring Serial Killer Parental Substitute Gender Flip Those Wacky Nazis Asshole Victim Offscreen Moment of Awesome Children Are Innocent Love at First Sight Bald of Evil Knight Templar Death Seeker Sexy Discretion Shot Shipper on Deck Left the Background Music On Mythology Gag Ragtag Bunch of Misfits A.I. Is a Crapshoot Off with His Head! It's Personal Shoot the Shaggy Dog Shout-Out Token Minority Villain Opening Scene Big Bad Duumvirate Did Not Get the Girl Superhero Femme Fatale Parental Neglect Japanese Films Bullying a Dragon German Films Book-Ends Twist Ending Hong Kong Films Villain Song This Is Gonna Suck Get Out! Smug Snake The Stoic Lampshade Hanging Punch-Clock Villain An Arm and a Leg Apocalypse How Say My Name Adaptational Badass In Name Only Military and Warfare Films And the Adventure Continues Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil After the End Determinator All There in the Manual Nice Guy Hidden Depths Crapsack World Here We Go Again! 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What the Hell, Hero? 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For! Emphasis! 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