Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

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

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