Tropescilloscope: Psychopathic Manchild

A crazy person with all the strength/intellect of an adult and the innocence of a child. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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