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