Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Disorder

A character who has a vague mental disorder. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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