Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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