Sandbox / Maturity Is Serious Business Wick Check

wick check for Maturity Is Serious Business.

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Non-trope (12/30)

1. A Serious Index: When you grow up, that's when you know I'm serious.
2. Audience Reactions: When the audience believes that the more serious and edgy a work is in tone, the more "mature" it is.
3. Comedy Ghetto: For the fandom version, see Maturity Is Serious Business.
4. Entertainment World History: Maturity Is Serious Business + Gen-X cynicism = the zenith of grimdark. 'Twas the Dark Age of Supernames, Crisis Crossovers, Bad Girls, and of course, the '90s Anti-Hero.
5. Maturity Tropes: The more mature a character acts, the more seriously they'll be taken.
6. True Art Is Angsty: Related to Comedy Ghetto, Oscar Bait, Maturity Is Serious Business, Death by Newbery Medal, Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!, Creator Breakdown and Creator Recovery.
7. It.Elenco Provvisorio M: Maturity Is Serious Business [La Maturità È Roba Seria]
8. It.In Italiano: La Maturità È Roba Seria [Maturity Is Serious Business]
9. Laconic.Maturity Is Serious Business: —>Man up and get serious here.
10. Sandbox.Maturity Is Serious Business Wick Check: wick check for Maturity Is Serious Business.
11. Sandbox.TRS Queue: Maturity Is Serious Business (Can launch without me but please, ping me)
12. Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Many fan bases tend to take the object of their fandom more seriously than the casual viewer and often vocally demand that the show reflect this; see Maturity Is Serious Business for more on fans of this mindset.

Character development (7/30)

1. Characters.Sonic The Hedgehog United Freedom Fighters: After the Metal Virus pandemic had ended, Cream the Rabbit soon became resourceful and mature. ► Misplaced.
2. Trivia.Yu Gi Oh Arc V Remake: Following Yusho leaving his family (and the Championship Match), Yuya decided to withdraw from You Show step up and support himself and Yoko, getting a job at Kame Game and attending middle school. As a result, he had little to no time to practice Dueling for three years. ► Misplaced.
3. Webcomic.Sonic The Hedgehog United: Cream is shown to be a mature kid, ever since she was cured of her Metal Virus infection. ► Misplaced.
4. YMMV.Boston Common: Boyd gets some pretty serious character development in "Mercury Retrograde" (Season 2, Episode 4). The early part of season two sees Boyd trying to move past his feelings for Joy. In this episode, Tasha sets him up on a blind date with a woman named Lisa. Boyd attempts to call Lisa, leaving her many - rather embarrassing - messages on her answering machine (you can tell Boyd hasn't dated in a while). As this is going on, Joy and Jack are cuddling inside Jack's classroom. When Jack tells Joy he loves her, she responds, "I love you, too, Boyd." Jack and Joy then fight about what she said, and Joy leaves the room. She makes her way to the Pritchetts' apartment, where she tells Boyd what happened. They're sitting on the couch, ready to kiss, and possibly go even further, when Joy begins crying. She tells Boyd she doesn't know who she wants between him and Jack, and it's Boyd who tells her that he can't wait on her forever, and that Joy has to decide for herself who she wants to be with, and what she wants to do with her life. Joy returns to Jack, and they get engaged on a whim. Later on, Joy and Boyd are outside the student union, Joy waiting on Jack, and Boyd waiting on Lisa. Joy attempts to apologize for what happened, but Boyd tells her an apology isn't necessary. Lisa approaches Boyd, telling him the messages he left on her machine were "cute", and they leave, as Joy leaves with Jack, looking back at Boyd, as she is not over him, while he is making good progress on getting over her. Boyd does have some lapses on his feelings for Joy during the course of the second season, but this season focuses more on Joy's (obvious) feelings for Boyd.
5. Literature.The Dragonslaying Maiden: After the Cynicism Catalyst that was Overwatch, Dana’s grown a thicker skin and doesn’t take insults lying down anymore in order to fit in. She grows more willing to stand her ground, make threats, and use her immense strength to get people to do what she wants while still being the Heroine. She acts more mature and reasonable for the rest of the story, so this isn’t a bad thing.
6. Recap.Thirty Rock S 2 E 3 The Collection: In-Universe, Tracy has to step in and be the adult when Liz and Angie fight, which he's not at all happy about.
   Tracy: You're making me act like an adult! An adult!
7. Series.Thats My Bush: Parodied to the extreme with A Poorly Executed Plan. In the episode, George's fraternity brothers from Yale come over for a visit. Predictably, chaos ensues. Ending with An Aesop about George having "grown up" while his fraternity brothers haven't.

Unclear (5/30)

1. DarthWiki.Pretty Cure All Stars Fanfics: Compared to the original franchise and series, which adheres to the Rule of Cute. this is far down the road. While it gets around a few of the more unpleasant tropes, this includes examples of Maturity Is Serious Business as well as the occasional Finagle's Law. Not to be confused with Grimdark in this instance.
2. Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity: In "So Many Birthdays", Steven changes to whatever physical age he feels like. Steven has a Maturity Is Serious Business moment and suddenly ages, until it escalates and he becomes an elderly man on the verge of death. Fortunately, he eventually remembers how to have fun and return to his kid form. His appearance being linked to his emotional maturity could explain why, as a Kiddie Kid, he's fourteen and hasn't changed in physical appearance since he was eight.
3. Quotes.Nintendo: 2001: The GBA and GameCube lost some marketshare that day...
   but we still loved to play Smash Bros. Melee...!
4. YMMV.Daisy Dares You: —> "I'm not like a little girl who writes about fancying boys. I'm a musician..."
5. YMMV.White Fox: If it's not this is not their moe-show, expect an almost complete absence of any vulgarity, silly humor or funny happening on the screen. In particular, Re:Zero has a whole series of episodes, during which Subaru is absorbed in insanity and does not react to stimuli.

Work is taken very seriously (3/30)

1. Multiple Demographic Appeal: Warhammer 40,000, on multiple levels. Without even involving the miniatures and the rulebooks, the game's grim, dark setting of eternal, hopeless war and vivid gothic imagery appeals to the Maturity Is Serious Business mindset, as there can't be many settings much more scowlingly serious than the galaxy of 40k. At the same time, the unflinching commitment to these grimdark elements in a setting where FTL travel sends you through hell and nine-foot armored supermen fire rocket-propeled grenade launchers one-handed while fighting underneath towering combinations of cathedrals and humongous mecha equipped with chainsaws the size of apartment buildings... it's all so over-the-top that other fans can enjoy a more lighthearted take on it, even without involving the Orks.
2. Darker and Edgier: This trope became extremely popular in Comic Books as a rebellion against the Silver Age but also led to more than a decade of a lot of clumsy attempts by many writers to show that comics are "not kid stuff anymore."
3. Pt.Darker And Edgier: Estatrôpe ficou popular em gibis (Comic Books) como uma rebelião contra a Silver Age que levava mais de uma década com tentativas estapafúrdias de mostrar que os quadrinhos ficaram mais sombrios e afiados, então revelando"não eram mais coisas de criança."

The work is too silly (3/30)

1. FanNickname.Western Animation: Toddler Titans: Teen Titans Go!. Used by The Mysterious Mr. Enter and fans of the original Teen Titans cartoon due to the show failing to meet the standards of maturity from the previous series. Other nicknames for the show include "Teen Titans No" and "Teen Titans Go Fuck Yourself". ► This is just Comedy Ghetto
2. Quotes.Animation Age Ghetto: When are you too old to be watching cartoons? Answer: whenever I feel like! I deserve to watch whatever I feel like. You know why? Because this, it's just a TV show. Maybe you'll learn something from it, but just for enjoying a TV show, game, movie, song, in the privacy of your home doesn't define you. It won't make you an inferior or superior person. You say cartoons are for kids because of that age rating in the same way a PG-13 movie is made for 13-year-olds and no-one else is allowed to watch them, no-one. The age rating doesn't mean it's made for kids, it's that it's appropriate for kids. Choosing to only enjoy stuff rated for an older audience doesn't at all make you more mature, it just means you're insecure about what others think of you over such trivial things.
3. TabletopGame.Bunnies And Burrows: However, nobody took the game seriously because it's about bunnies. With no weapons, mythical creatures, or unrealistic magics, players were at a loss for what you could do inside the game. Many were mystified that you could make an epic adventure with rabbits and dismissed the idea as "too silly".