Tropescilloscope: Manchild

Childish adult. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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