Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

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

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