Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

An arrogant, outwardly charming manipulator with a complete Lack of Empathy, morals and conscience. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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