Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Disorder

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

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