Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

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

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