Tropescilloscope: Manchild

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