Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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