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