Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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