Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Disorder

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

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