Tropescilloscope: Ambiguous Disorder

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

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