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