Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Disorder

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

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