Tropescilloscope: The Sociopath

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

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