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