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