Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Epilogue The Great Depression Gender Flip Drugs Are Bad Greater-Scope Villain Woman Scorned Demoted to Extra Evil Sounds Deep Re-Cut Big Bad Duumvirate Naïve Newcomer The '60s Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Not Using the "Z" Word There Is No Kill Like Overkill Chekhov's Gun Let's Get Dangerous! Italian Films Pragmatic Villainy Eiffel Tower Effect Your Cheating Heart Brick Joke Reasonable Authority Figure Fantastic Racism Does This Remind You of Anything? Casting Gag Eye Scream Spiteful Spit Rousing Speech The Film of the Book Broken Pedestal Even Evil Has Standards Take a Third Option Toplessness from the Back Rule of Cool Important Haircut Dirty Cop Expy Bound and Gagged Artistic License – Military Shower Scene Off with His Head! Famous Last Words Call-Forward BFG MacGuffin Boom, Headshot! Ascended Extra Together in Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Science Fiction Films Never Found the Body Dropped a Bridge on Him Playing Gertrude "Shaggy Dog" Story Police Brutality Betty and Veronica Suddenly SHOUTING! Romantic Comedy Chekhov's Skill Sports Stories Insane Troll Logic Same Language Dub The Hero Amoral Attorney Big Eater Russian Films Bland-Name Product Fun with Acronyms Television Movie Index Drives Like Crazy Dark Action Girl Plucky Comic Relief Big "NO!" Country Matters Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Slashed Throat Body Horror Make It Look Like an Accident Horror Films Australian Movies Men Are the Expendable Gender The Remake Kill It with Fire Riddle for the Ages All There in the Script Four-Temperament Ensemble Fate Worse than Death Death of a Child Poor Communication Kills The Chessmaster Martial Arts Movie Freudian Excuse Framing Device It Can Think Slasher Movie The Starscream Gone Horribly Right Hell Is That Noise Cowboy Cop Evil Is Petty The '50s Implacable Man Black Dude Dies First Badass Bookworm Dirty Coward Crazy Jealous Guy Visual Pun Sequel Hook Hope Spot The Dreaded Idiot Ball Manly Tears Bolivian Army Ending Facial Horror Bloodier and Gorier Vitriolic Best Buds Pyrrhic Victory The Ace Drill Sergeant Nasty Back from the Dead Ass Shove Those Two Guys You Have Failed Me Rape as Drama Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas She Cleans Up Nicely Aside Glance Breaking the Fourth Wall Camp Gay Adaptation Dye-Job Bare Your Midriff Black Best Friend An Arm and a Leg Everyone Has Standards Scary Black Man In the Back NO INDOOR VOICE Music Stories The Chick Sole Survivor No Antagonist Calling the Old Man Out Informed Ability Fourth Date Marriage Armor-Piercing Question Improbable Aiming Skills Bald of Evil Offscreen Moment of Awesome Evil Counterpart The Dog Bites Back Exactly What It Says on the Tin Comically Missing the Point All There in the Manual The Sociopath Amusing Injuries Authority Equals Asskicking Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Good Is Not Nice Precision F-Strike Psychopathic Manchild I Did What I Had to Do Gilligan Cut Public Domain Feature Films I'm a Humanitarian Catch-Phrase No Name Given Fake Shemp Fatal Flaw A Date with Rosie Palms Dual Wielding Brutal Honesty Tranquil Fury Hollywood Law Abusive Parents Adaptational Badass Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Kick the Son of a Bitch Mistaken for Gay Unreliable Narrator Conspicuous CG Affectionate Parody Jerk Jock Bittersweet Ending Break the Cutie Fantasy Films Corpsing Dull Surprise All Just a Dream Would Hit a Girl Smug Snake Adaptational Villainy Failed a Spot Check Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Handicapped Badass Properly Paranoid Malevolent Masked Men Disney Death folderlabel Captain Ersatz Refuge in Audacity Biopic Christmas Movies Index Character Development Pretty in Mink Not So Above It All Ship Tease Death by Sex Index of Film Westerns Never My Fault Ironic Echo Gory Discretion Shot Dying Moment of Awesome Cold-Blooded Torture Cassandra Truth The Reveal Dies Wide Open Historical-Domain Character Romantic False Lead Madness Mantra Easily Forgiven Pretty Little Headshots Annoying Younger Sibling Title Drop Fanservice Extra The Atoner Silence Is Golden Protagonist Title Action Survivor Slap-Slap-Kiss Made of Iron Bi the Way Book-Ends Love Triangle Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Villain with Good Publicity Psycho for Hire Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Tempting Fate Heel–Face Turn Obfuscating Stupidity Pre-Mortem One-Liner As Himself Babies Ever After Broken Aesop Better to Die than Be Killed Parental Substitute The Smart Guy Fan Disservice Throwing Your Sword Always Works Straight Gay I Have Your Wife Meaningful Background Event Downer Ending Gold Digger The Stoic Decoy Protagonist "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bloodless Carnage Punny Name Artistic License – Physics Obstructive Bureaucrat Mugging the Monster Man on Fire Worthy Opponent Be Careful What You Wish For Too Dumb to Live Reality Is Unrealistic Mundane Made Awesome Guns Akimbo Large Ham Unusual Euphemism Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Adaptation Distillation Dogged Nice Guy Fire-Forged Friends Yandere Scenery Gorn The Brute My Beloved Smother Self-Deprecation Unwitting Instigator of Doom Peek-a-Boo Corpse No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Suspiciously Similar Substitute Truth in Television Villain Opening Scene Knight Templar Deadpan Snarker Dramatic Irony Imagine Spot Roaring Rampage of Revenge Nice Hat No OSHA Compliance Fish out of Water Heterosexual Life-Partners A God Am I Disguised in Drag Silent Movie Dramedy Random Events Plot Award-Bait Song Shell-Shocked Veteran Genre Throwback Pimped-Out Dress Bring My Brown Pants Recycled IN SPACE! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Continuity Nod Deus ex Machina Chekhov's Gunman Punch-Clock Villain Historical Villain Upgrade Anguished Declaration of Love Big Brother Instinct Blood from the Mouth Author Avatar Star-Crossed Lovers Ambiguous Ending Police are Useless Anachronic Order Hoist by His Own Petard It Will Never Catch On No Ending Arranged Marriage Eureka Moment And Starring It's All About Me Brainless Beauty Disappeared Dad Nothing Is Scarier He Knows Too Much Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Adaptation Name Change Mood Whiplash Establishing Character Moment Dwindling Party Shut Up, Hannibal! Artistic License – Geography Say My Name Foil Documentary Berserk Button Stalker with a Crush Retired Badass Flipping the Bird Fingore Race Lift The '70s The Ghost Serial Killer Diabolus ex Machina Redshirt Army Badass Longcoat Central Theme Arc Words The Alleged Car Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Leave the Camera Running Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Villain Protagonist Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Psychological Thriller Belligerent Sexual Tension Action Prologue The Power of Love Dramatic Gun Cock Cat Scare Pet the Dog Henpecked Husband Non-Indicative Name What the Hell, Hero? Narrator Artistic License – Biology Skewed Priorities Made of Explodium Damsel in Distress Stepford Smiler Neck Snap Eagleland Loophole Abuse Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Quiet One Trailers Always Spoil Vacation Films Defrosting Ice Queen Twist Ending Cool Car Rule of Three The Alcoholic Spanner in the Works Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! German Films Action Girl He Who Fights Monsters Logo Joke The Bully Closed Circle Bowdlerise Creative Closing Credits Scenery Porn War Is Hell Up to Eleven Empathic Environment Naked People Are Funny The Mole Pay Evil unto Evil Eldritch Abomination Intrepid Reporter Based on a True Story Whole Plot Reference Killed Mid-Sentence Early Installment Weirdness Didn't Think This Through The Dragon Historical In-Joke Here We Go Again! Half the Man He Used to Be Anachronism Stew Did Not Get the Girl Mythology Gag For the Evulz Not So Different Hooker with a Heart of Gold Shirtless Scene One Steve Limit Crazy-Prepared Offscreen Teleportation Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Camera Abuse Dressing as the Enemy Adults Are Useless Mooks Getting Crap Past the Radar Smoking Is Cool Red Eyes, Take Warning Mr. Fanservice A.I. Is a Crapshoot Deconstruction Line-of-Sight Name Foregone Conclusion Red Oni, Blue Oni Black and Gray Morality How We Got Here Race Against the Clock All Girls Want Bad Boys Coming-of-Age Story In Medias Res Deliberate Values Dissonance Mr. Exposition Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Abhorrent Admirer Red Shirt Blatant Lies Parental Abandonment Not Quite Dead Hate Sink Ungrateful Bastard Adaptational Attractiveness Translation Convention Wretched Hive Actor Allusion Does Not Like Shoes '80s Hair Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Missing Mom Cain and Abel Bad "Bad Acting" Double Entendre Artistic License – History Early-Bird Cameo Every Car Is a Pinto Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Ditz Not Even Bothering with the Accent Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Shown Their Work Only Known by Their Nickname It's Personal Instant Death Bullet Japanese Films Mexican Standoff No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Broken Bird Humans Are Bastards Femme Fatale Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Wham Shot The Smurfette Principle Heroic Sacrifice Big Fancy House Epic Fail Bottomless Magazines Ax-Crazy My Greatest Failure Defiant to the End Real Life Writes the Plot Brother–Sister Incest Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Meet Cute Would Hurt a Child Aluminum Christmas Trees Cool Old Lady Evil Is Hammy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Obviously Evil Irony Cruel and Unusual Death Not What It Looks Like Room Full of Crazy Intergenerational Friendship Only in It for the Money Fiery Redhead Badass Boast Bullying a Dragon Contrived Coincidence Get Out! Rich Bitch Wham Line Posthumous Character Reality Ensues Mama Bear French Films Papa Wolf Maybe Ever After Crapsack World Grievous Bottley Harm What Happened to the Mouse? Developing Doomed Characters The Big Guy The Hero Dies Very Loosely Based on a True Story Agony of the Feet Blackmail Match Cut Film Noir Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Karma Houdini Almost Kiss Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun A Minor Kidroduction Dissonant Serenity Ripped from the Headlines Unusually Uninteresting Sight Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Take That! Break the Haughty Bunny-Ears Lawyer A Father to His Men Outrun the Fireball Chewing the Scenery Stylistic Suck Really Gets Around Black Comedy Rape Scare Chord Dark and Troubled Past Captain Obvious Daylight Horror You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Leaning on the Fourth Wall Sci-Fi Horror Product Placement Awesome, but Impractical Stock Footage Freeze-Frame Bonus Face–Heel Turn Combat Pragmatist Happily Married Darker and Edgier The '90s Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Once More, with Clarity! Curse Cut Short Major Injury Underreaction Light Is Not Good Actually Pretty Funny Air-Vent Passageway Rule of Symbolism Works Set in World War II Reckless Gun Usage Crucified Hero Shot Wicked Cultured Novelization 20 Minutes into the Future Ms. Fanservice Black Comedy Mercy Kill Mighty Whitey Film Series This Is Gonna Suck Rated M for Manly Stuff Blowing Up Mystery and Detective Films Training Montage Lampshade Hanging The Load Dark Is Not Evil Lighter and Softer Paper-Thin Disguise Market-Based Title Extremely Short Timespan Karmic Death Ghost Fiction Totally Radical Canon Foreigner Depraved Bisexual Adapted Out Eyepatch of Power Never Trust a Trailer Morality Pet Kids Are Cruel Woman in White Small Name, Big Ego Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" One-Word Title For Want of a Nail Spell My Name with an "S" Put on a Bus The Cameo B-Movie From Nobody to Nightmare Sir Swears-a-Lot "Awesome McCool" Name Redemption Equals Death Hypocritical Humor Dirty Old Man Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Drowning My Sorrows Big Bad Humiliation Conga Token Minority Extreme Doormat Exact Words Villainous Breakdown Kubrick Stare Your Head A-Splode Unresolved Sexual Tension Gorn Spared by the Adaptation As You Know Parental Incest Hong Kong Films Historical Hero Upgrade Monumental Damage As the Good Book Says... Evil Laugh Dumb Blonde Guile Hero Overly Long Gag Dutch Angle Corrupt Corporate Executive Serious Business Kick the Dog Genre Shift "Well Done, Son!" Guy Hair-Trigger Temper Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Antagonist Title The Lost Lenore Revenge Interrupted Suicide Loads and Loads of Characters Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Not So Stoic Ominous Latin Chanting Beauty Is Never Tarnished Lock and Load Montage Oh, Crap! Setting Update The Vamp Cat Fight From Bad to Worse Older Than They Look The Un-Reveal Cool Guns What You Are in the Dark Hypocrite Well-Intentioned Extremist The End... Or Is It? Taking the Bullet Meaningful Echo Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Fanservice Cool Old Guy The Casanova