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