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