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