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