Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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