Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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