Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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