Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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