Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

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

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